Untitled (medium format images of young girls sitting with doll in bedroom) 1962

Editor: So this is an untitled photograph by Martin Schweig. We know it’s medium format, depicting young girls with a doll, but beyond that, the details feel… intentionally obscured. It's like peering into a memory. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It strikes me as a sort of inverted nostalgia, doesn't it? The photographic negative gives the familiar scene an eerie cast. It feels incredibly intimate, yet remote, almost like a half-remembered dream. Does the doll look somewhat stern to you, or is it just me? Editor: It does have quite the expression, now that you mention it. The doll mirrors the girls, but with a seriousness they don't possess in quite the same way. Curator: Perhaps that's the point. Childhood's duality, innocence tinged with the weight of expectation. It is an evocative, almost unsettling image. Editor: I'm definitely seeing more than I did initially! Thanks for sharing your insights.