Smiling for pictures is fucking weird
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Photography
Vlad. — 3 years ago(September 29, 2022 11:58 PM)
It’s unnatural. You’re not necessarily happy when you smile for pictures. It’s dishonest and perverts the truth of the memory.
In the wild, animals bare their teeth when they want to kill something. In modern America, less sophisticated animals bare their teeth in edited selfies for social media. Which is more meaningless?
Ultimately, It’s ****ing bizarre. A uniquely human practice. Actually it’s a recent practice, as prior to the photograph, everyone looked appropriately grim and serious in paintings.
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Vlad. — 3 years ago(September 30, 2022 12:12 AM)
Sure but so many people have ****ing awful smiles. Also it’s not how you normally look. So, you’re not putting your best image forward. It’s just something you “do” for pics. It’s ****ing weird.
Anyways I do like smiling for photos but just consider how unnatural the act is. You’re literally changing all outward signs of emotion, faking often irrational levels of happiness as evidenced by goofy toothy smiles taken on command. It’s ****ing sick.
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fun with socks and jane — 3 years ago(September 30, 2022 01:21 AM)
I thought I was the only one. But I’ve always felt ridiculous putting on a cheesy, fake, smile, for photos.
Actually it’s a recent practice, as prior to the photograph, everyone looked appropriately grim and serious in paintings.
You’re right. It’s only a relatively recent trend in photography. Up until about the turn of the 20th century, exposure times were slow, so it wasn’t practical to pose with a smile for 5 or 10+ minutes or so. That, and a family photograph was considered a serious affair, so no one thought to smile. It was also expensive. So unfortunately, many photographs during the Victorian era, were
“Victorian Memento Mori”
(Depending on how easily you’re creeped out, you might not want to look that up)
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Vlad. — 3 years ago(September 30, 2022 08:22 AM)
Right.
Nature agrees with us. “It wasn’t practical” to smile for long, right? Nobody does that. The act of smiling for pictures corrupts the memory. You are not actually smiling like a doofus the entire time during whatever event you’re at. If you were, nobody would talk to you and everyone would hate you.
Stop.
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