Wicker is not a plant. It's the technique used...the weaving of pliable plant material to create these items. The plants used are usually rattan (palm), willow, reed, and bamboo.
AncientFaces oh god. I scrambled to open the link and didn’t read properly...and then you’d already seen my comment and replied. Perhaps it is a PM photo...
I don't understand why so many people automatically think a photo of someone not smiling, looking somber or staring at something must be a dead person. Formal photos of folks back them simply didn't show a lot of facial animation.
You couldn’t have much animation in your face in Victorian era photography. It would have been captured as a blur.
You had to hold an expression for a few minutes while the image was set onto the negative.
Cynthia Ann Foberg not by this time. Exposure times were about the same as they are now in 1908. Long exposures were in the very early days of photography.
I wasn't talking about the process of taking the photos. What I wrote was that, in formal photos, people did not show a lot of emotion. In the Edwardian times, the photographers did not have everyone say "Cheese"! It wasn't until the 1920s and 1930s before people became more relaxed and smiled more as more folks had Brownie cameras and took more photos themselves rather than the formal portraits by a professional.
My father was born and grew up during the Edwardian period. I have hundreds of old photos of my parents and their siblings and friends taken in fairly casual settings, like at the beach and at family gatherings, and few of the photos have anyone smiling.
Sure, some people smiled during these times, but it was not the common thing to do.
And getting a baby to smile when you want he or she to do so is a tricky business no matter what era!
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