Why people never smiled in old photos

Vox · 2.9M views · 2016 · 3:20

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Explains why people rarely smiled in old photographs, debunking myths and discussing historical context and technology.

Linked by 6 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including openculture.com, citizen.co.za, englishconversationquestions.com, eol.co.il, livetvgr.com.