Untitled (young girl wearing dress posed sitting on couch in living room) 1957

Editor: This is an untitled photo, probably from the mid-20th century, by Martin Schweig, showing a young girl in a dress on a couch. The negative makes it feel ghostly. What symbols stand out to you? Curator: Notice how the inverted image emphasizes the formality of the pose. The girl's dress and the staged living room speak of a certain era’s ideals of domesticity. But the photographic negative disrupts that, doesn't it? It makes us question the surface. What memories or anxieties does it stir in you? Editor: I think it makes me question how much of our lives are performative, then and now. Thanks, I see it differently now!