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The evolution of smiling in portrait photography

November 25, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

So now you know:

Etiquette and beauty standards dictated that the mouth be kept small—resulting in an instruction to “say prunes” (rather than cheese) when a photograph was being taken

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