Untitled ("Lucy is Enceinte") 8 - 1952

Here's this found photograph, it's a modest size, and the anonymous artist captured it, perhaps in the mid-twentieth century. The image, dominated by shades of gray and black, focuses on a television screen showing a man in a tuxedo, other figures are visible in the background, all set within the static of the photograph's emulsion. I am struck by the artist's impulse to photograph an image on TV - the mediation of an image, it's so meta, right? I wonder about the artist, what they were thinking, what compelled them to frame this moment. Maybe they were thinking about how TV can make something mundane feel special, like an everyday event broadcast into our homes becomes a shared experience? The surface of this photograph feels really important—it's not pristine; there are scratches and imperfections like the residue of time lived. I feel like this work is a subtle nod to how all us artists engage in the ongoing act of image-making and recording our lives in creative ways.