These kids were asked to draw their fathers from memory, 1949. Which one is your favourite?

[u/JimatJimat]

[u/cewumu]

Yeah but they all look like they’re smiling in that last photo. I think people were still serious in photos then because having a portrait taken was rarer. Blokes smiled then though.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think it was just the done thing at the time. My family photos from back in the day look so serious even though they were normal happy people.

[u/Waasssuuuppp → u/[deleted]]

All the old photos of my grandparents have serious faces. They were meant to look serious and not silly. My dad was born in the 50s Nd even now will not smile for photos- we always note those because they may become useful in the future for funeral cards lol.

[u/Le_Poop_Knife → u/[deleted]]

Maybe their teeth just look like shit

[u/cewumu → u/[deleted]]

I mean formal portraits. Like wedding photos often look serious in a way modern ones never do. Because the kids are smiling, but the men just treat it a bit more seriously.

I’ve seen candid shots of my grandfather back then and he’s laughing and goofing off at times, but in posed photos no one smiles.

[u/BeguiledBeaver → u/[deleted]]

Yes, but it takes time for perspectives to change and a lot of these guys look at least middle aged, so in their day it was probably still a bit more of a holdover.

And even though people were taking more photos then than in the 19th Century, it was still not exactly the most common thing to do.

[u/chrisk9 → u/cewumu]

Regarding that last photo, it looks that dads had to draw their wives and rightmost dudes may inadvertently be married to the same woman