Untitled (two unidentified women, seated, woman on left has hair up, woman on right has hair down in ringlets) 1872 - 1874

Editor: This ambrotype, "Untitled (two unidentified women...)", is by George Kendall Warren. It's a simple portrait, but there's a real intimacy to it. What strikes you most about this image? Curator: The texture of time, for starters. It feels like a whispered secret, doesn’t it? Those women, frozen in amber, gazing back at us across a century, maybe more. Do you wonder what they were thinking? Editor: Absolutely! I feel like they are holding back something. Curator: Perhaps. Or maybe they were just present, breathing, existing in that moment. It's a poignant reminder of lives lived, now just echoes in a frame. Editor: It’s funny how a single image can hold so much, isn't it? Curator: Precisely. And in its stillness, allows us to imagine our own stories within theirs.