Untitled (wedding party, women gathered around groom) 1958

Editor: This photograph by John Deusing, “Untitled (wedding party, women gathered around groom),” feels almost ghostly in its presentation. It’s a negative print, so everything is inverted, creating a really strange effect. What do you make of it? Curator: It’s like a dream, isn't it? Or a half-remembered memory. Perhaps the inverted tones capture the topsy-turvy feeling of weddings, that blend of joy and trepidation. Are we really seeing a specific moment, or something more universal about these rituals? Editor: That’s a beautiful way of putting it. It makes me think about the ways we document our lives and how those recordings can change over time. Curator: Precisely!