This picture shows Arbus’s interest in winners and losers, also evident in another project where she photographed the tear-stained losers and indifferent winners of baby competitions known as ‘Diaper Derbys’. This photograph was published as a story for Esquire titled 'The Last of Life’, which described this senior citizen’s dance in New York as "a picket line against God." The couple in Arbus’s image don’t seem to be celebrating their prizes – the royal robes and crowns seem incongruous set against their serious expressions and old-fashioned clothing, such as the Queen’s orthopaedic shoes and the King’s staid tweed suit. The caption reveals that "Yetta Grant, seventy-two, and Charles Fahrer, seventy-nine, had never met before their names were picked from a hat … They reigned for the evening as king and queen of the ball".