glasnegatief c. 1895 - 1925

This glass negative by W.G. Hondius van den Broek is all about the process of seeing. It's not just a picture, it's a moment captured, flipped, and transformed. Looking at it, I'm drawn to the way the light plays, how the darks become light and vice versa. The texture, that grainy surface, it's like a memory half-formed, a dream clinging to the edges of consciousness. See the girl on the right, how she holds a toy horse, it becomes an eerie, ghostlike apparition. I think about the conversation artists have across time, and how this image relates to the work of someone like Clarence John Laughlin, who explored similar themes of memory and the uncanny. This isn't just a photo, it's an invitation to question what we see and how we see it. It embraces the ambiguity, the multiple layers of meaning that art can hold.