Re: [Cz-L] Why serious in photos

Modern cameras have a smile detector mode.
  No smile - no take.
   How ?
   White teeth detector.
Hardy
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From: "Sylvia de Swaan" <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>
To: "Leo Spitzer" <poldispitzer_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "andy halmay" <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and
History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>; "RUTH GOLD"
<glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Why serious in photos

> 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..

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