Extremely long exposure times made smiling nearly impossible. Many people in these photos look the way they do because they are so focused on not blinking. If you blinked your eyes would blur and it would appear as if you didn't have eyes.ELB wrote:I suspect that people in general were not all that dour, but that smiling in photographs was not the fashion, especially when long exposures were required. Besides, none of those guys was exactly a spring chicken when the photographs were taken (apparently around 1850); they may have easily exceeded the life expectancy of their birth peers by more than double. They were probably feeling a bit creaky and not inclined to smile...
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