One of my favorite Diane Arbus photographs and holiday images in general and then...

from Ball State Photo Land's Thomas Kinkaide painting over the fireplace to yours. Image courtesy of Matt Compton.
Chris Verene, My Cousin Candi's Wedding with Her Two Favorite Customers from Her Job at the Sirloin Steak Stockade, 2004

Sally Mann, He is Very Sick, 1986

Joel Sternfeld, Man with Training Baby, 1999

Southworth & Hawes, Family Portrait, 1884

Alec Soth, Mother and Daughter, Davenport, Iowa. "'My dream is to be a RN,' wrote Aja. Her mother, Julie, said that she had given up dreaming a long time ago."

Gary Schneider, Barron Family Portrait, 1996

Larry Sultan, Mom Posing for Me, 1984

Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, 1975

Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, 2007

Trish Morrissey, June 17th, 2006
[Morrisey switches places with the woman in the family she finds on a beach. The subjects are being photographed by someone familiar and hardly realize that there is an outsider sitting between them.]

Duane Michals, Letter to My Father, 1975

Bill Owens, Fourth of July, from Suburbia
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Family Photo Album of Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

Seydou Keita, Bamako, 1956

Ken Josephson, Anissa, 1969

Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000

Jessica Todd Harper, Christmas Eve Dinner, 2006

Rita Marhaug, 256 pounds, 1988

Doug Dubois, Lisa and James, Ithaca, NY, 2005

Tina Barney, Sunday New York Times, 1982

Richard Avedon, Lyal Burl and His Sons Kerry & Philip, 1981

Diane Arbus, Brooklyn Family, 1966

Emmet Gowin, Edith, Ruth & Mae, 1967