Originally Posted by
blilrat
That's really cool. Not one smile in any of those pictures. Apparently the phrase 'say cheese' hadn't been coined yet.
That's right. Take a look at old portraits. No smiles. I don't know when smiling started.
I have cousins who immigrated from Russia in 1989. When they first came here, they STOPPED smiling whenever the camera was pointed at them. They later assimilated and started smiling in the same way we do.