The Finn’s have a LOT of photographs of Jimothy the Elder, which I suppose will happen when you live through all of the 19th Century as an upper class man with money to burn.
The Finn’s have a LOT of photographs of Jimothy the Elder, which I suppose will happen when you live through all of the 19th Century as an upper class man with money to burn.
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Huh, that image is given quite a bit of care for reader questions, look like someone had fun.
But it does make me wonder, are there trends to how human certain features look in midforms, based on internalized cultural ideas of the time?
I remember reading a neat factoid about photography in the 1800’s- apparently it was ONLY with the invention of the digital camera-phone that a generation has managed to take more photographs per-person than the Victorians. Those folks were CRAZY about their photographs, and would actually just… take pictures of their rooms, or houses, or literally anything they could get to stay still for long enough.
Of course those photos are all monochrome (“black and white”), but I’m guessing a fair portion of them are blue-tinted instead of the more familiar brown-tinted monochrome. I can’t remember its name, but there was an alternate system of photographic chemistry developed early on, which was significantly more durable than the silver-based system which became standard. The problem for the rival system was that it was based on platinum, and that was just before the price of platinum skyrocketed.
“Some of us are cursed with minds like flypaper,”