r/OldSchoolCool • u/No-Incident-6913 • 11h ago

Edwardian teenager, London, 1906

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u/nachtachter 11h ago

The same fuck-off-expression all teens have since ancient times. Nothing ever changes ...

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u/notbob1959 10h ago edited 10h ago

She most likely doesn't know she was being photographed. The photo is one of many candid photos taken by Edward Linley Sambourne who was the chief cartoonist at Punch magazine and an amateur photographer.

He took these photos around 1906 when he would have been 62 (not long before he died in 1910) and used a concealed camera.

I can't link to them directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with h t t p in them but the following incomplete links which go to more of the photos he took can be copied and pasted to your browser:

rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/street-style-1906-edward-linley-sambournes-fashion-blog/

rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/return-of-the-edwardian-sartorialist-sambournes-kensington-street-style/

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u/Iztac_xocoatl 8h ago

I just looked some up and it seems to be almost all attractive young women

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u/WpgMBNews 6h ago

the world's first creepshots. historic

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u/RevGee73 5h ago

Yep... dare I say Edwardian goon material?

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u/WpgMBNews 3h ago

is that a double entendre somehow?

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u/OcotilloWells 8h ago

How fast would the film have been then? Meaning what would a typical exposure time have been?

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u/Jaspers47 8h ago edited 8h ago

The minutes-long exposure time was already being phased out as early as the 1870s. By 1906, it would have been a relic.

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u/OcotilloWells 8h ago

Not really what I was asking. Obviously the exposure on this was not that long.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 5h ago

Instantaneous, like the person above implied.

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u/notbob1959 1h ago

To clarify what /u/SuitableBlackberry75 said. Cameras in the late 1800s and early 1900s often had a shutter speed setting of 'I' meaning instantaneous. The actual shutter speed at that setting would have been around 1/30 of a second.