A solitary woman leans against a counter, cigarette in hand, captured in Diane Arbus's characteristically intimate and unflinching black-and-white style. The gelatin silver print, later printed by Neil Selkirk, renders the urban scene with a raw, documentary honesty that invites the viewer into a private, unremarkable moment made quietly extraordinary. Arbus's signature ability to find complexity and humanity in everyday subjects transforms this simple act of smoking into a meditation on solitude and urban life.