Untitled (two portraits of baby in bonnet)

Editor: This is an untitled image, a rather haunting double portrait of a baby in a bonnet, by John Deusing, housed at the Harvard Art Museums. What strikes me is the ghostly effect and the duplication. What do you make of it? Curator: It whispers of old photographic processes, doesn't it? The negative space is almost like a dreamscape. The duplication… perhaps a comment on the mass production of imagery even then? Editor: Mass production of imagery. That’s a really interesting point! Thanks! Curator: It's just a thought! I wonder what Deusing would make of our digital age?