Arbus usually chose to photograph people who were outsiders in society and her photographs give the impression that she identified with her subjects, and shared their feeling of not fitting in. This is surprising as Arbus herself was from a privileged background, the daughter of an upper-middle-class, Jewish family that owned a clothing store on Fifth Avenue specialising in furs. The couple pictured here are the kind of people who would have visited her parents in their Park Avenue apartment. They smile over-enthusiastically at Arbus as if they are being photographed for the society pages. They seem confident, at ease with their wealth and status in a way Arbus was not. She remembered: "The family fortune always seemed to me humiliating".