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When did smiling in photographs become fassionable?


In the early daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and ferrotypes (daguerreotypes only had a few seconds of exposure, so they probably weren't frowning because of the long exposure time), in the portraits everyone is always stern-looking, not frowning but certainly not happy-looking. These days it's nearly the polar opposite: even if someone is having a terrible day, they'll ususually still smile in a picture. So, when did people start habitually smiling in photographs, and do you have any clue why?

I'm just curious.

P.S. I thought this question would fit more into Society and Culture, because Photography deals more with the technical aspect of photographs.

I already told you that after the picture was set up, exposure was only a few seconds. These days professional portraits take just as long, but people still smile.

Plus, the primary question was "when". The secondary one is "why".

in the olden days people used to not smile because it took so long for the picture to take that people just didn't and besides doesn't smiling look prettier ? : - D

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