Smiling
Questions
1. Are you a smiler? Do you smile a lot? Do you like it?
2. Why is a smile so nice?
3. Who do you know who has the nicest smile? What’s so nice about it?
4. Do you like your smile?
5. What can you do in your life to smile more?
6. What made you smile today?
7. What things always make you smile?
8. What memories from your past always put a smile on your face?
Videos
Early portraits looked pretty grim.
A lot of old photos from the 19th and early 20th century are fraught with doom and gloom—and on the
A lot of old photos from the 19th and early 20th century are fraught with doom and gloom—and on the
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occasion the literal dead face. That led to the popular belief that people just did not smile in old photographs. The common explanation is due to the limited technology at the time to capture a smile. Exposure times were long and the thinking was it’s easier to hold a serious expression over a long period. Another theory included early photography being heavily influenced by painting (which meant no smiling).
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Category: History & Culture