Arbus Twins Photo Quiz: Identical Twins in Roselle, 1967

This arbus twins photo quiz stands before two girls in matching dresses. Play 10 interactive questions on Diane Arbus's Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967, a square format camera, the twins Cathleen and Colleen Wade, a Christmas party for twins, subtle differences in their expressions, the 1967 MoMA exhibition New Documents and the image's echo in The Shining.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Who
Who took Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey?
Year
When was the photo taken?
Place
Where was it taken?
Names
What are the twins' names?
Format
What shape are Arbus's photographs?
Diff
What do viewers notice about the twins?
Show
Which 1967 MoMA exhibition featured Arbus?
Film
Which film's twins are often linked to the photo?
Subjects
What subjects did Arbus often photograph?
Color
Was the photo in color?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who took Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey?
Answer: Diane Arbus
In 1967.
Q2: When was the photo taken?
Answer: 1967
In the 1960s.
Q3: Where was it taken?
Answer: Roselle, New Jersey
At a twins' gathering.
Q4: What are the twins' names?
Answer: Cathleen and Colleen Wade
Identified later.
Q5: What shape are Arbus's photographs?
Answer: Square
From a medium-format camera.
Q6: What do viewers notice about the twins?
Answer: Subtly different expressions
One smiles slightly.
Q7: Which 1967 MoMA exhibition featured Arbus?
Answer: New Documents
With Winogrand and Friedlander.
Q8: Which film's twins are often linked to the photo?
Answer: The Shining
By Stanley Kubrick.
Q9: What subjects did Arbus often photograph?
Answer: People on the margins of society
With empathy and directness.
Q10: Was the photo in color?
Answer: No, black and white
Like most of her work.

Two Girls in Matching Dresses

In 1967 Diane Arbus photographed Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, at a gathering for twins. The girls, later identified as Cathleen and Colleen Wade, stand side by side in matching dresses, photographed in black and white in Arbus's square format.

At first they look identical, but viewers notice subtly different expressions; one seems to smile slightly while the other looks serious. This tension between sameness and difference gives the image its power.

That year Arbus was featured in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition New Documents with Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. The twins in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining are often linked to the photograph. Arbus often photographed people on the margins of society with directness.

What This Quiz Teaches

Photography fans will enjoy these questions.

Who took the photo
Who the twins are
What makes it striking
Where Arbus was shown
Which film it echoes

Did You Know?

Arbus died in 1971.
Kubrick began as a photographer.
Arbus worked in fashion photography first.
Her work inspired debate.
Prints of the twins sold for high prices.