PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 1 year agoMan eating rice, China, 1901media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down16
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minus-squareMrJameGumb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·1 year agoThe fact that it’s such an old picture and he’s smiling makes it look like this was taken at one of those photo shops at the mall where they have old timey costumes lol! He must have sat there smiling and holding that bowl for like 10 minutes!
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up53·1 year agoBy 1901 cameras had gotten faster, but there was still a ‘culture’ of solemn posing in the West. https://www.demilked.com/smiling-chinese-man-old-photo/
minus-squarebluemellophone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year agoHonestly, I have a hard time believing ANYBODY would have teeth that nice and straight in 1901.
minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 @monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThis looks like an ads for a chinese restaurant lol
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoApparently the Chinese didn’t “know” photos were serious business, thus this goofing off. So was said in previous discussion of this photo.
The fact that it’s such an old picture and he’s smiling makes it look like this was taken at one of those photo shops at the mall where they have old timey costumes lol! He must have sat there smiling and holding that bowl for like 10 minutes!
By 1901 cameras had gotten faster, but there was still a ‘culture’ of solemn posing in the West.
https://www.demilked.com/smiling-chinese-man-old-photo/
Honestly, I have a hard time believing ANYBODY would have teeth that nice and straight in 1901.
This looks like an ads for a chinese restaurant lol
Apparently the Chinese didn’t “know” photos were serious business, thus this goofing off. So was said in previous discussion of this photo.