Untitled (truck outside of building) 1944

Editor: So this is an untitled photo by Hamblin Studio, it shows a truck outside a building, and the print itself is quite small, only about 5 by 7 inches. I find the negative image so striking, like a ghostly memory. What stands out to you? Curator: Well, isn't it funny how a simple reversal can make the ordinary feel utterly alien? For me, it's the mundane details that sing – that striped awning, the clock hanging above... they hint at a bustling life now eerily silent. And those figures, frozen mid-action, what are they doing exactly? It’s a slice of forgotten Americana served up with a dash of the uncanny. Editor: I see what you mean. The mundanity of the scene paired with the ghostly negative really gives it a strange charge. It almost feels like a dream. Curator: Precisely. A dream dipped in fixer.