Untitled (two babies on couch, one making funny face) c. 1950

Curator: This is an untitled photographic work from the Harvard Art Museums, attributed to Lucian and Mary Brown, showing two babies on a couch. Editor: It's striking! That inverted color palette gives such a spectral, almost otherworldly feel to this everyday scene. Curator: Exactly! The mundane, domestic moment transformed. The composition, though simple, is effective, isn't it? The blanket dominates as a soft, hazy landscape. Editor: It's the babies' expressions that really grab you. One's so intensely focused on something, while the other is pulling the most wonderfully grumpy face. Curator: Yes, a fleeting bit of childhood captured in this silvery, dreamlike way. It makes you wonder about the world through their eyes. Editor: The inverted tones also oddly emphasize the texture of everything. A fascinating memento.