In the first photo people are not smiling because I do not want to look stupid

It's not a bad zubah



For a while it was thought that people in old photographs so serious because they were hiding rotten or missing teeth, it is very common to the times of modern dentistry. However, those who, according to witnesses, were fabulous smile and frown in photos. Not to mention that it is possible to smile, keep your mouth shut. In addition, bad teeth were so commonplace that hardly considered something very unattractive. Lord Palmerston, the British Prime Minister, was considered pretty, but it lacked a few front teeth.



When the theory about the failed teeth, wide acceptance for the idea that no one was smiling, because the cameras were incredibly long exposure time - from five to more than 30 minutes. It was uncomfortable and probably impossible to smile and stand still for that amount of time. Although this idea makes sense, it does not explain why the model is rarely portrayed smiling at the old pictures and why people started to show his white teeth in 1840, when the exposure time is reduced to minutes.





The real reason is that the model thought that would look silly. Most of taking pictures just do not want to be immortalized with a goofy grin on their faces. Mark Twain said it best:

«Photography - the most important document, and there is nothing worse than a silly sound descendants, silly grin, caught and fixed forever».

blockquote> Now we smile in photographs to show their happiness and warmth, but no self-respecting people of the Victorian era did not want to be photographed so. We can only imagine what they would think about the hundreds of thousands of images that appear every minute with our silly smiles fotozhabu and self incriminating.









via factroom.ru