Hidden mother genre. Photo taken here.
Between 1840 and 1920, the unusual practice of hiding a child's parents in a photograph was common. In those times Exposition the picture could be very long, for example, more than a minute. It was very difficult to force the child to be still in the frame, which is why the parents, often the mother, were present in the frame, but tried to hide themselves in the final photograph in every possible way. Sometimes very interesting and unusual results were obtained.
Many examples of photos in this genre can be seen, for example, on pinterest.
How good it is now with high ISOs and fast lenses and endless photo editing possibilities. True, getting children to pose in the frame without their parents remains just as difficult.
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Material prepared Arkady Shapoval.
Quite creepy examples .. And also photographed with corpses in those days.
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I can't even imagine how to remove a child even for 5 seconds. I filmed all spring on Photocor 1 and my blurry adults can't help turning their heads for 5 seconds .... and I am a Children's animator and I know tricky tricks like: imagine that there is a butterfly on the nose, do not move so that it does not fly away)
I was always amazed how and why children are raped by forcing them to portray adults. It is enough to sit next to the place where they play, point the camera and press the shutter, if you are not damned by the Almighty, then you will immediately get beautiful photos. With adults, everything is much more complicated - they will turn on a duty expression on their faces and at least kill you.
It's just that adults have frozen faces and are quite scary against the background of children, unless, of course, the children are specially brought
In the photo from the article, the photographer's “work” is clearly visible. Another thing is that technology then did not allow, of course, flexibility
There is a blogger who has many posts about the work of photographers and a photo studio in the distant
of the past - Dmitry Maistrenko.
https://strravaganza.livejournal.com/
Read it, there is a very interesting selection.
Why hide yourself if you can still see in the photo that there is someone else in the frame? Maybe some kind of superstition. Or a woman of strict Muslim rules)
In order not to worry about your own appearance (clothes, hairstyle, makeup, facial expressions). At the same time, from under the cover, you can influence the children with persuasion, threats or abuse, so that they remain motionless. Without a cover, the same talk with long exposure will result in blurring of the lower face.
Thank you for telling us about this genre :)
It is always interesting to plunge into the history of photography.
It's still nothing.
In the "civilized" Europe of the 19th century, especially in Victorian Britain, there was another fashion - to photograph the dead, incl. children.
There are a lot of pictures on the net. Horror, but you can understand the relatives - this was the only way to perpetuate the memory of the deceased child.
In Soviet times, it was fashion (fashion, not fashion, some sort of obligation) to photograph funerals. The relatives of the deceased / deceased were looking for a photographer, he was filming the farewell, the removal of the coffin, a few shots on the road, the farewell to the cemetery, and a ready-made grave. Tin. I was just fond of photography, oh, and suffered from such "attention". For a teenager, a sight is still something, but it is necessary, they ask. And almost all of the acquaintances - do not shirk. They were thankful with money, photoreagents, films, and photographic paper. But all the same, when I remember - brrr ... Yes, and photos needed several sets ...
I bought a film camera not so long ago. I don't remember exactly what it was, but it doesn't matter. The camera was with a film. For the sake of interest, he showed it. There was a funeral on the tape.
There was no such fashion in the USSR. What nonsense? Whoever wanted to, he hired a photographer, who did not want, he did not.
And the carpet on the wall was not obligatory, and the wall was all over the wall, and crystal, yeah. Nobody was forced. And after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the capsule with radioactive cesium that was lost in the quarry, and then hit the wall (in my opinion), due to which several different families gathered together, no one was forced to check the walls with a dosimeter. It's just that people are lemmings by nature, and the scoop cultivated it especially carefully.
I remember the Soviet times well, but I have never met such a "obligation" to shoot a funeral. It would be nice for the author of the post to indicate in his publication: the year, the region, etc.
My grandfather had three or four funerals in the album. You just remember the late times in the 70s, 80s. In the past, a funeral photographer was a frequent story.
So, at your place or at your grandfather's?
80s, Donetsk. All the funerals that I remember were filmed, and the orchestra with Chopin's march was obligatory. With the collapse of the scoop, all this went away, somewhere in the mid-90s.
And we had fun, in our large courtyard of apartments for four hundred, people from one or several neighboring villages were settled. Grandmothers, mostly. And as they began to die in the early 90s, there was not a week without a funeral. And that's all - takeaway, orchestra, photographs. Brrr ...