Untitled (throwing rice on newleyweds) 1955

Editor: Here we have "Untitled (throwing rice on newlyweds)," a gelatin silver print by Ken Whitmire Associates. It’s small, almost snapshot-sized, and something about the high contrast, the way the figures almost glow, makes me think of a dream. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It feels wonderfully frozen in time, doesn’t it? Like a memory struggling to surface. Perhaps the artist was interested in capturing not just the event, but the feeling of a wedding, the fleeting joy and ephemeral nature of such moments. Almost as if the rice itself is transforming into light. Editor: That’s beautiful. It's like a celebration of light itself. I hadn't considered that. Curator: Well, photographs are paintings made of light, aren't they? It makes you think about the light and shadows. Editor: True!