This well-known picture was made for an article on ‘American Families’ published in The Sunday Times Magazine. An image of well-heeled American suburbia at leisure, it would fit with the vision of the ‘American Dream’ that the British editors of the magazine would expect. By way of contrast, this picture was published alongside a photograph showing a very different vision of American life – a young Brooklyn family with their handicapped son. It is clear, however, that to Arbus this conventional, good-looking upper-middle-class family was in no way ‘ideal’ or ‘normal’. Describing her thoughts on the project she said: "They are a fascinating family. I think all families are creepy in a way".