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That's a long time to be eating rice
1901-1904
he died so young... 😞
Soo-Yung
No, exposure times were really long back then.
Ever get told as a kid "you keep making that face and it'll get stuck that way"? Well here's the guy whose face got stuck in the best way, happy as a clam.
And ever since, because he did it, everyone else else should be smiling and appear happy on their photos, lest they be threatened with cheese violence.
Thanks a lot, random Chinese dude. Now I have to expose my face bones for pictures all the time...
There was an /r/1800sPeopleHavingFun or something like that which would be cool to bring to Lemmy
"no no. strike a pose that you would want your descendants to remember you with"
smile gets bigger
Source: some guy on the internet
The photo is real but the story isn't provably true or false.
On behalf of the American Museum of Natural History, Berthold Laufer (1874–1934) undertook the Jacob H. Schiff expedition (1901–1904), sending him to China to "carry out scientific investigations in Eastern Asia" (Berthold Laufer to Franz Boas, 7 January 1900) and to make "collections which illustrate the popular customs and beliefs of the Chinese, their industries, and their mode of life" (Franz Boas to Morris Ketchum Jesup, 27 December 1902). Along with amassing a collection of Chinese objects, Laufer acquired approximately 143 photographic prints and a list of associated captions. There is no record where or when Laufer acquired these photographs. There is also no record of Laufer having taken any himself and several photographs are known to be widely-distributed images available for purchase at the time.
Also, "not provably false" isn't a thing that should ever be a metric for any claim.
It's an interesting story, and I more or less agree with the premise. The subject's clothing is WAY TOO FINE for a rural farmer.
rural farmer
As opposed to urban farmer
Maybe not quite rural and just below urban.
Hmmm... Just below. Perhaps sub-urban?
Nah, that term will never catch on.
That's me when I'm eating rice as well