Interesting. Early photograph subjects may have posed as if they were objects of portrait painting. And > Though saints might be depicted with faint smiles, w

Interesting. Early photograph subjects may have posed as if they were objects of portrait painting. And > Though saints might be depicted with faint smiles, wider smiles were “associated with madness, lewdness, loudness, drunkenness, all sorts of states of being that were not particularly decorous,” says Trumble.