People Never Smiled In Old Photos? This Is The Reason.
Of all human expressions, smiling is one of the most “beautiful”
“Nothing you wear is more valuable than your beautiful smile.” — Connie Stevens
Whether you’ve noticed this or not, it is absolutely rare to find people smiling in photographs during the 19th and 20th centuries. The individuals in the photographs always looked grim and creepy irrespective of their then state of mind and social status.
A vast majority of the photographed people look extremely sad for a reason unknown. But on closely examining more and more photographs we reach a point wherein we can certainly conclude that it was not that they were sad but instead the grim look was a trend of the era.
Unlike today’s trends which may have their origins from a viral social media post and lack a proper logical explanation as to why it went viral in the first place, the grim & serious looks back in the day had several cultural and scientific explanations backing it.
