When People Started Smiling in Photographs and Why They Didn't Before
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2015
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“Say cheese!” This simple command is meant to elicit a smile from potential photography subjects no matter what their age. It has become so commonplace that the word “say” is often no longer uttered. A simple “cheese” spreads a smile across anyone’s face, and with a click of a button, that smile is captured for eternity.
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Weird thing is, saying "cheese" doesn't make you smile unless you actually want to smile while saying it.
I didn't know that there were so many things that I wanted to know before coming across this channel.
If only my history class was this interesting :(
Lasting Fame
Been there done that. Sometimes the teacher asks me to stay be and show him how I do it.
+Prophet's Bane Man I hope your history teacher isn't me.
that moment is captured for eternity, assuming the nitrocelluloid film doesn't combust, the glass plate doesn't crack, the paper doesn't degrade, or the file doesn't get corrupted.
You've discovered the impermanence of existence. Congratulations.
In China we say Eggplant. It has similar vocal requirements as cheese.
David D.W. Wouldn't 起司 meet that well enough also?
That's weird. I would have thought the Chinese would have used a Chinese word, not an English one.
(and that's a joke, for the 99.9% of you who missed it)
In Taiwan, people will pronounce "cheese" like "去死" and end up making a duck-face. Plus, when pointed to by a camera, people always inevitably make a "V" sign with their fingers. It's very VERY frustrating. Yes, Bloodbath, it should suffice. Chinese does not have the U-with-dots-over-it sound that German has, for example, but they add it into English often. Bugs the crap out of me.
Ray Chang are you referring to the peace sign ?
David D.W. In America we say cheese XD
Not just photographs were unsmiling; paintings too: that's why we find Mona Lisa's smile so weird..
novlettemasellia I always wondered why people were so obsessed with that.
rogue123987 I found out. . .that there was a journalist or author who wrote this long interesting article going on and on about the Mona Lisa. It was decades.after it was painted. His writing made her famous. He also, basically, sold the idea of Caucasian beauty(sorry, but it's not automatic). So it was one guy's article that made her legend.
Simon, I'm glad you went with the full beard and glasses look
My grandmother-in-law always tells everyone (with a long cigarette in here mouth and a raspy voice) “SAY WHISKEY!” LOL. My own grandmother told me when she showed me an old pictures of my 19th century family and they werent smiling. I figured that it was because everyone was miserable back then, she then informed me that people back then considered smiling to be ‘putting on airs’ and was thus quite rude.
Great video! Keep up the good work!!
There are very interesting historical items here. Excellent video!
ecksalante voulé
5:06 looks like someone took his cheese just before taking the picture... yeesh, mr.angwypants
Thank you. I was also under the impression it was the exposure time.
Simon looks so different without his beard.
Great videos. More frequent mention of dates and years would be nice, to put the material in the context of what I already know. Thanks.
I have a couple pictures of my great-great grandmother. She looked like she never had a happy day in her life.
George Eastman's Kodak not only changed photography for the "masses", Kodak film changed documentary and journalism. Quick and "easy" photography had a much bigger impact than "just" family photos, It brought reality closer to the public. "film" (VS plates) also led to movies. Further showing Kodak's impact on our lives. A kodak moment, indeed.
If you look it up, there is pictures of people in the 1800s smiling in photos. And people goofing around too
Informative and interesting, whatever happened to Kodak?
"Conducive".
I caught that too!
5:56 "Price $25.00 - Loaded for 100 Pictures." $25 in 1913 is equivalent to $610 in 2016. (The US Inflation Calculator only goes back o 1913.) I wonder if that included developing the film & processing the image on to paper? My guess would be it didn't. So although the camera was only a dollar, the pictures were still fairly expensive. (The average pay in the USA in 1900 was $ 438 a year.)
"yes" gives a much better smile
Depends on the question that goes with it. ;)
You won't have to worry about this CHEESINESS...
BADDA-BUM-BUM-TSS!
Wow, young Simon has a slight look of nosferateu about him!
wow dude you got a lot better looking and dress way better from 2015 to 2017. You matured and seasoned lol
No beard! I came from the happiest Chinese man video.
In Mexico we say whiskey.
Juan Manuel Zardain Buganza I say that's the best one :)
My salvadoran aunt always said that but i thought it was a joke!
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I'm American, and I've done that a couple of times, too!
I remember seeing this one post that had a victorian-age photo of a chinese man - perhaps unfamilliar with the ettiquette or cultural conventions, the guy is posing with a dish of rice & had a super-enthusiastic YOLO-type smile that wouldn't be out of place in a modern-day selfie, all while dressed in old timesy chinese clothing.
It was a quite surreal sight. Whoever this dude was he had some ~personality~
Interesting
Since Guerrotypes were so difficult to make and even a rich person might only have one made in their lifetime, does that explain the practice of getting a photo of one's dead child made? That it was a once in a lifetime thing and that was the only opportunity to do so if it had not been done before that?
Why do they lower Simon's voice pitch on narration in older videos?
Addendum to Washington's teeth - They were made out of teeth pulled from corpses. I'm guessing they said wooden ones in school because it seemed less gross.
I heard something different. I read they didn't smile because it was really expensive to have your picture taken. So the only time a family would have their picture taken was when a family member died. So of course they aren't smiling.
Just the thought of cheese makes me smile. Though I rarely expose my teeth, they're crooked as hell
This is a little off topic, but what does the "DK" in the lower right corner of the stand for @TodayIFoundOut?
Donkey Kong? Dry Knees? Drowned Kangaroo?
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I own many very old photos with people smiling...the people were very wealthy...they could afford to take photos of ordinary things like we do now...
People really had the "Badass" vibes back then
in Finland we say "juusto" that means cheese. saying it doesnt make a smile though. we finns dont smile much anyway
Beardless, no-glasses Simon, saying "say cheese" is just creepy!
I have a pic of my great great grand mother it's a tin type from 1870s about the time of her wedding to my great great grand father She died 1883
It's my personal opinion that people just weren't happy back then, what with no tv or videogames.
'Chess!'
'Squeeze!'
'Kiss!'
'Please?'
'EEEEEEEEEEEE!' lol
Wooden dentures? No one really used those.
entirely different person without glasses
I don't naturally smile when saying "cheese"; I know I'm supposed to for photos and such, but in normal speech my lips don't go that way...
I can say cheese just fine without smiling
"Conducive," not "conductive."
I spent a week with my dad's mom up in her home after grandpa passed away. It was neat to have that time to ask questions and find out about family I had never met. I noticed while looking through her photographs that when she was a kid and even when my dad was a kid there was no smiling. And grandma noted we smiled in church, but out of church life was very hard and you just didn't have time to stand around smiling like a murderous chimpanzee looking for the next victim. She assumed it began after the slaves were set free in America, because they were always smiling. Ya gotta know until she came to Vancouver she'd never seen anyone darker than the natives that were also way away from their 40 family towne of sorts. She told me that where you developed film sometimes the people making them into pictures knew who to steal from because of their smiles. By the end of that week it became obvious that people there must have had ample stock of cocaine as only ones using that or crack wefre so worried about whatever was inside bushes and behind stones.
Does anyone else find the first three seconds of this video disturbing?
Still love the channel, though. I just found it funny.
Please make this into a podcast, I can't watch UA-cam videos at work 😭
I know this is old but the site "bitdownloader" has the option to download videos as mp3 files making them kind of like podcasts? Idk if it did, but I hope it helps!
First off, Simon, fantastic job with this. Little did we know we both made a video about the exact same thing around the exact same time! I go into a little bit more detail with why people didn't smile in paintings before photographs around, but still, both of our videos are eerily similar. Stay in touch, future internet friend.
oh kewl, so you literally came to this video to promote yourself and -humble- brag? well at least now I know you're a narcissist and to stay away from your videos, so thanks for that!
I think smiling it photographs is kinda stupid tbh
Well if know one cared why'd you take the time to reply exactly you care enough to reply.
And to think people wonder why i don't smile in some photographs. Humans have a range of emotions good, bad, and neutral. Personally i like the way my face looks with a neutral expression so I use that the most for my profile pictures around the internet. I'd rather have my genuine expression at the time of the photograph be displayed and not a false smile plastered on to show the folks.
bleachsanchoblastk yeah no one cares
#Relatable #Same
It really sucks that there's like one socially acceptable expression and how you're stuck with that even if it makes your face look derpy.
Lol no one wonders why
thought it was prohnowsted "conDOOsive", not conDUCTive...
Well those are two different words...
lilgrasshoppah pronounced*
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So basically people had bad teeth.
First
+shawn shiek no one cares ugggg
"Much different"?? You are British, yet you use this awful American expression. Correct English is "very different," old boy!
DieFlabbergast he sounds fine
It's an Americanism: if you don't realise that, I would wager you are under 35 years of age. British English has been absolutely swamped by Americanisms over the past 30 years or so. "Much different" is not even regarded as correct by anybody who could pass for an authority on English usage in the United States - you wouldn't find this expression in the New York Times, for instance. "Much" should be used before the comparative, as in "much better." "Much more different" would be perfectly acceptable.
U wot m8?
"to understand where this reasoning comes from and why it is likely incorrect..."
if its incorrect then why are you bothering to tell us at all?
"...You need a very brief history of photography."
No we don't! We really don't! Just skip to the part where you give us the correct answer!
If you don't watch videos on this channel to learn, what do you watch them for? A simple answer is meaningless without a context.