Re: Photography - Past and Present
The biggest difference of then and now pictures is not how people would look at the camera but how camera would look at the people. The slow shutter speeds of the cameras back then would require people to stay still and often hold their breaths for many if not tens of seconds. The casual. laughing, goggling, looking back at the last moment poses were impossible back then. The stiffness that the author mentioned is because of the movement restrictions, that photographers would impose on the photographees.