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A Civil War soldier goofing around (1863) (lemmy.world)
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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Photographs used to be far more expensive

Yet there's plenty of examples of people goofing around in posed shots.

Somewhere in this community (I think it was, anyway) there's at least one photo of someone posing to look like a disembodied head, which was evidently hugely popular in... I think it was France or Britain, for a while. In the mid-to-late 1800's, I think.

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