June 9, 2020
This Rare 1894 Photograph Shows a Young Indigenous Woman Smiling at the Viewer
In the early age of photography, portraits of people were few and far between, but they had one thing in common: serious faces. Nowadays, you’d expect to see an emotionless face in these old-timey photographs, which is why the recent discovery of an image of a young woman smiling from nearly 130 years ago is really unusual and utterly fascinating.
