{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/146223207983/", "html": "

fearwax:

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scootsenshi:

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24-sa3t:

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comradeonion:

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powerofthestruggle:

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Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

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this is an extremely important picture

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Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg

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He has a nice face

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No but the history behind this picture is really interesting

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The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn\u2019t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

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It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

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But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren\u2019t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that\u2019s the pose he wanted to strike.

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