Untitled (family portrait: parents and son in living room) c. 1950

Editor: Here we have an intimate family portrait by Lucian and Mary Brown. It's a small, 4x5 inch print, and seeing it as a negative creates this eerie but also strangely compelling feeling. What do you make of this domestic scene? Curator: Isn't it odd how something so quotidian can feel so… spectral? It reminds me of film stills, or perhaps a memory clinging to the light. The family's formality, almost frozen in time, makes me wonder what stories this captured moment could tell, if only we could invert it, and them. Editor: That's a really beautiful way to put it. I initially saw the starkness, but now I'm sensing more of the story within the image.