{"id":29815,"date":"2024-10-09T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2024-10-09T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T04:02:45","slug":"smile-youre-on-candid-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/smile-youre-on-candid-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"smile &#8211; you&#8217;re on candid camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29816\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29816\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29816\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/smile-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">smile &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. We have all heard that in the 1800s people in photos had a stern, serious, unsmiling \u00a0expression. A ZOOM talk this month on October 10th (tomorrow) sheds some light on this assumption. \u00a0Our friends at the Monmouth County (NJ) Historical Association (MCHA) are hosting Gary Saretzky. Gary&#8217;s presentation is, &#8220;Why Didn&#8217;t People Smile in Old Photos? &#8230;or Did They?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back in the early days of photography in the 1840s, photographers said, &#8220;Say Prunes!&#8221; instead of &#8220;Say Cheese!&#8221; to get a facial expression considered appropriate for a portrait.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most sitters continued to display serious faces until the 20th century. Yet a<br \/>\nsmall percentage of extant 19th century portraits show people smiling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Illustrated with numerous examples, including some celebrity portraits, this<br \/>\nlecture explores the smiling\/not smiling continuum in 19th century photographic portraiture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouthhistory.org\/historically-speaking\">MCHS website here<\/a> for registration details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We have all heard that in the 1800s people in photos had a stern, serious, unsmiling \u00a0expression. A ZOOM talk this month on October 10th (tomorrow) sheds some light on this assumption. \u00a0Our friends at the Monmouth County (NJ) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/smile-youre-on-candid-camera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1191,220,631],"class_list":["post-29815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-19th-century","tag-photos","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29819,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions\/29819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}