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A Place in the Sun: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 10:42pm.
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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 8:39am.
When I was young we would sometimes turn backwards.
KC
Posed or Candid?
Submitted by TK42ONE on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 7:26am.
Were they posed? Or were they candid? If this was a candid shot, why so many turned around backwards?
[Hard to say almost a hundred years later, but I would imagine someone said something to the effect of "smile for the camera." In any case this would have been a big box camera on a tripod, so they'd have to know they were being photographed. - Dave]
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