Untitled (hallway of printing company, filing cabinets) 1953

Editor: Here we have an untitled photograph by Harris & Ewing, showing a hallway with filing cabinets. It's quite striking, but also a bit unsettling... almost like a scene from a bureaucratic dream. What catches your eye about this image? Curator: Ah, yes, a bureaucratic dream indeed! For me, it’s the light. The way it bounces off those filing cabinets, row upon row, suggesting endless information. But it's inverted here. Do you get that feeling of being lost in data, or perhaps trapped in a system? Editor: I hadn't thought about it that way, but I see what you mean. It feels like the archive is a character itself. Curator: Exactly! Perhaps the most important character. And it makes you wonder about the stories hidden within those cabinets, doesn't it? It’s a fantastic glimpse into the hidden architecture that structures our world. Editor: It’s amazing how much the perspective changes when you consider the light and archive as characters. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure! It is photographs like this, with their sense of both the ordinary and extraordinary, that really stick with you.