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Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

pessimizer wrote: post #8
Normille wrote: post #2

Great 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.

Makes sense given that central heating wasn't a thing yet.

Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

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Post by fxtentacle »

RotaryTelephone wrote: post #81
rjp0008 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same thing will exist for people in 2010/2030 because of computational photography filters/algos.

In 2050s they'll look at today's smart phone selfies and wonder why people liked these smooth skin auto glamour edited fakes so much. Then the androids will chuckle to themselves and move on.

They'll probably do societal studies to determine if it helped with mating, just like how we analyze those colorful birds dancing weirdly in the forest.

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Post by frederikvs »

cmer wrote: post #59

Somewhat unrelated question that I could probably Google, but I figured it's more interesting to hear your take. Why do people on old pictures look like they're from a completely different era? They look like they're from the 1800s. Is it the camera, the clothing or did they actually look slightly different from us? Or perhaps it's just an illusion? Realistically I wouldn't expect humans' appearance to change that mu…

I suspect a large part of it is caused by facial expressions and how the people pose. Having your picture taken was very serious business, so no smiles were allowed. Show your most serious, regal pose.

If you look at the "Happiest man in China" photo, it doesn't look like an old photo - it looks like a modern photo of somebody dressed up in old time clothes. There is no hard evidence, but many people believe that the man just wasn't aware of how people were expected to pose for a picture.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-behind...

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Post by socialdemocrat »

dorkwood wrote: post #16

The last photo of the man being affectionate with his young daughter is surprising to me. All my life, I've thought that men born before 1950, like my father, just didn't do that sort of thing. And yet here is a man born a hundred years earlier doing just that.

One has to keep in mind and that a lot of what people think about is he past is from Britain due to its dominance. Britain has long had a very strict form of child raising. That has been part of the culture.

In Norway, where this is from, one generally believed in milder treatment of both children and prisoners than British. Physical punishment got banned much earlier.

My mother who grew up in the 1950s Norway always describe her father as exceptionally kind. He would spend time in the basement making doll house and doll furniture for my mother and her sister.

He did not have much money but would get my mom oil paint so she could learn to paint.

If any of the boys in her street was mean to my mom or her sister, her dad would be there right on the spot.

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Post by tokai »

t-writescode wrote: post #93
toastal wrote: post #90

I'm just thinking of how quiet those cities must be befoul cars

Indeed, yelling of the heralds; and horses in shoes with wooden wheels rotating carts (edit: walking cobblestone roads). Very quiet :)

Wooden wheels with metal threads on topped cobblestones. The noise from roads was infernal. I guess all the horse dung would have dampened it a bit.

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Post by xmprt »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #115

Can we not post boredpanda.com please? It's basically blogspam; anything on it will have been primarily posted elsewhere first.

Do you have an original source for this set of images? I'm curious to find the original authors or publisher.
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