Re the smile in photography - I recommend to my photo students that they
take pictures of people smiling only if they're smiling on their own
because they feel amused - not because there is a camera pointing at them.
It was Kodak's marketing scheme at the turn of the 20th century that got
everyone to smile for the camera - it made people buy more cameras. So at
that family picnic that we remember the kids being tired & grumpy, some of
the adults dozing off and aunt so and so flirting with the gardener,
becomes flattened when a camera appears and everyone jumps up and smiles on
cue. In a sense becomes an erasure of personal history and memory..
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Leo Spitzer <poldispitzer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Concerning the smile in photography. I highly recommend an article by
> Christina Kotchemidova, "Why We Say 'Cheese': Producing the Smile in
> Snapshot Photography" in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 22,
> No. 1, March 2005, pp. 2-25. I will try to make it available to interested
> members on the List.
>
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