Yes but again the “chubbier” people have a more adipose tissue spread all over the body. Nobody had intraabdominal fat like they do today, plus these people did more physical labor. Most if not all grew up on a farm and barely if ever sat down, plus add in riding a horse for mode of transportation it makes perfect sense. [/quote]
And when they did sit it was on a hard bench or a church pew.
Rarely were cushions part of the home unless you were wealthy.
Anyways, thanks for posting this OP. It’s a fascinating time in our history, one that I’m a bit of a nut for. The whole war changed everything, every direction the country was headed, just incredible.
As for what Angry Chicken said about the “Northern Aggression” I believe it 100%. All it takes is to wander around a city like Richmond, down by the river and the old encampments and listen to some of the people who are there, muttering some pretty brutal things about how we’d all be better off if things went the other way.
That being said, however, I love Richmond. It’s so amazing to be there, staying at a hotel like the Doubletree off Franklin and have R.E. Lee’s wartime house just down the street, and JEB Stuarts death site two blocks up.
[quote]pgtips wrote:
Is it me or does the way they seem to carry themselves seem extremely different to people these days?[/quote]
I noticed the same thing. Posture seems a lot better back in the day. Hey, Push do you still sit like that? lol[/quote]
Most kids grew up barefoot. Everyone except the rich did physical labour, ALL the time with Sunday as a day of rest just to go to mass, no one had desk jobs, no one sat on big squeeshy couches or sat stooped over computers typing out responses like this one, no one ate shite and everything was organic - not saying life was better but it was certainly different thats for sure…
[quote]pgtips wrote:
Is it me or does the way they seem to carry themselves seem extremely different to people these days?[/quote]
One thing to consider is that all those photos would have been long exposures by today’s standards and not snapshots so everyone who is clear and crisp in the photos has to have posed there as still as possible for long as needed to get the shot and so you’re not seeing people in their natural state. If you look at picture 23 for example there is a faint blur of a person right next to the wagon but you can barely see them because they didn’t cooperate for the photo.
[quote]pgtips wrote:
Is it me or does the way they seem to carry themselves seem extremely different to people these days?[/quote]
One thing to consider is that all those photos would have been long exposures by today’s standards and not snapshots so everyone who is clear and crisp in the photos has to have posed there as still as possible for long as needed to get the shot and so you’re not seeing people in their natural state. If you look at picture 23 for example there is a faint blur of a person right next to the wagon but you can barely see them because they didn’t cooperate for the photo.[/quote]
I was in a photography studio the other day and the guy had some very old cameras and said the exposure time was approx 2 seconds. People that posed ‘in studio’ would have been usually propped up with sticks etc. to keep them up straight plus no one smiled in case the photo blurred.
Getting your photo taken would have been a rare thing to happen so everyone attempted to look thier best, which brings me on to the time I went to Auschwitz and I saw photos (headshots) of individual female prisoners who had just arrived, with heads newly shaved, holding up their prison number, SMILING! Below their photos it had their arrival date and the eventual day they were murdered. One of the saddest things I had ever seen…
Two main types of photography during the civil war.
Check Mathew Brady’s work, he (and his assistants)was the main mofo for most of the union photography and created many of the iconic images, particularly the death harvest pics from Antietam and Gettysburg.
Two main types of photography during the civil war.
Check Mathew Brady’s work, he (and his assistants)was the main mofo for most of the union photography and created many of the iconic images, particularly the death harvest pics from Antietam and Gettysburg.
[quote]pgtips wrote:
Is it me or does the way they seem to carry themselves seem extremely different to people these days?[/quote]
One thing to consider is that all those photos would have been long exposures by today’s standards and not snapshots so everyone who is clear and crisp in the photos has to have posed there as still as possible for long as needed to get the shot and so you’re not seeing people in their natural state. If you look at picture 23 for example there is a faint blur of a person right next to the wagon but you can barely see them because they didn’t cooperate for the photo.[/quote]
Hey, thanks for that. You learn something new everyday eh?
One thing to consider is that all those photos would have been long exposures by today’s standards and not snapshots so everyone who is clear and crisp in the photos has to have posed there as still as possible for long as needed to get the shot and so you’re not seeing people in their natural state. If you look at picture 23 for example there is a faint blur of a person right next to the wagon but you can barely see them because they didn’t cooperate for the photo.[/quote]
Interesting.
I wonder if this explains why nobody in old-timey photos smiled - it’d be a pain in the ass to hold a smile for a long duration of time.
