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Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J.
Gelatin silver print by Diane Arbus, 1967. Twin girls Cathleen and Colleen Wade photographed at a New Jersey Christmas party. Their subtly different expressions create uncanny visual tension. Stanley Kubrick cited it as inspiration for The Shining (1980).
Scholarly Significance
Diane Arbus's most reproduced photograph. Anchors debates about the photographer's gaze and the uncanny in documentary photography.