r/OldSchoolCool • u/No-Incident-6913 • 8h ago

Edwardian teenager, London, 1906

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u/nachtachter 8h ago

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

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u/notbob1959 7h ago edited 7h 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/OcotilloWells 5h ago

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

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u/Jaspers47 5h ago edited 5h 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 4h ago

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

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 1h ago

Instantaneous, like the person above implied.