Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
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#2Great find. Thanks for posting.
I love it when photos from this era occasionally emerge showing people acting naturally. We're so used to seeing the vast majority of Victorian photographs showing dour-faced people sitting or standing stiffly to attention, that it's sometimes difficult to believe they had human emotions, just like us.
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#3There are notes/photos on/of the camera in the previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16049954
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#4Old photographs of my Danish town from the 1890s had the same feel and mood. I think it's the empty streets.
Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
#5Great find. Thanks for posting. I love it when photos from this era occasionally emerge showing people acting naturally. We're so used to seeing the vast majority of Victorian photographs showing dour-faced people sitting or standing stiffly to attention, that it's sometimes difficult to believe they had human emotions, just like us.
It’s great. I also love video footage from that era as well, capturing the ordinary bustle of the streets. It’s fun when it’s local and you can point to familiar places. One of my favourites is Victoria and Vancouver BC around 1900[0].
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#6This is the first time I've felt like the people in old photos aren't aliens.
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#7This is the first time I've felt like the people in old photos aren't aliens.
The change in "hat culture" is pretty incredible though. That's a LOT of hats!
Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
#8Great find. Thanks for posting. I love it when photos from this era occasionally emerge showing people acting naturally. We're so used to seeing the vast majority of Victorian photographs showing dour-faced people sitting or standing stiffly to attention, that it's sometimes difficult to believe they had human emotions, just like us.
Without the posed stiffness, the major thing remaining that makes them look 19th century is that they're all drowning in cloth; lots of thick layers.
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#9Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
#10There are notes/photos on/of the camera in the previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16049954
Worth linking directly, there are over 150 photos at the old link: https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photogra...