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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 11, 2011 21:28:03 GMT -5
Out of the 'leg-touching' boys in the front middle of the photo, the one on the far right looks most disturbed by the whole situation. I'm not exactly sure how far the photographic process had evolved by 1927, but I know that not too long before then it was still a major chore to have even a single picture taken. The subjects(s) had to sit and stare at the camera for a long time even if everything turned out just right, and keeping a smile frozen in place for that long would not have been much fun. I doubt if a school photographer would have had the patience to even attempt to make sure that more than sixty students kept on smiling without lapse as he concentrated on getting the complex photo process to work.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jul 12, 2011 12:22:23 GMT -5
Out of the 'leg-touching' boys in the front middle of the photo, the one on the far right looks most disturbed by the whole situation. I'm not exactly sure how far the photographic process had evolved by 1927, but I know that not too long before then it was still a major chore to have even a single picture taken. The subjects(s) had to sit and stare at the camera for a long time even if everything turned out just right, and keeping a smile frozen in place for that long would not have been much fun. I doubt if a school photographer would have had the patience to even attempt to make sure that more than sixty students kept on smiling without lapse as he concentrated on getting the complex photo process to work. That's right. Few people could stay smiling for that long (so I'm sure most people didn't even bother when they were getting their picture taken). Plus, most people didn't brush their teeth regularly back then (I think most Americans only did it once a month back then), so I'm sure few people had healthy teeth). I was sort of half-kidding when I was talking about the 'uncomfortable boy', though.
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