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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 71748, member: 121"]I'm not trying to be rude or nasty, but sometimes I think we tend to attach too much symbolism and/or importance to these older photos. For instance, the first one here could just be a case of the studio photographer saying "You want to sit on the bear skin or the tapestry rug, we have a table with a vase or a my mothers huge begonia as a side balance, oh, and here, did you bring your embroidery or do you want to hold my sketch book in your lap?" "Nice, madam, now just a bit to the left and we have a perfect composition! Your cousin in Des Moines will think you are an accomplished, elegant lady of the world."</p><p><br /></p><p>And the second one just wore her "best skirt and waist" with all the jewelry she owned and carried the derringer because she was THE crack shot of the Ladies Baptist Shooting and Archery Club, AND because her mother told her NOT to have it in the photo................................................</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In all seriousness, do you think that in a century someone will look at a photo of you and your kids and speculate that you must have been animal activists and botanists because there is a kitten and a house plant in the photo? Or that photo of you in leg warmers (because they were SO fashionable) and deduce that you were a Broadway chorus dancer?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 71748, member: 121"]I'm not trying to be rude or nasty, but sometimes I think we tend to attach too much symbolism and/or importance to these older photos. For instance, the first one here could just be a case of the studio photographer saying "You want to sit on the bear skin or the tapestry rug, we have a table with a vase or a my mothers huge begonia as a side balance, oh, and here, did you bring your embroidery or do you want to hold my sketch book in your lap?" "Nice, madam, now just a bit to the left and we have a perfect composition! Your cousin in Des Moines will think you are an accomplished, elegant lady of the world." And the second one just wore her "best skirt and waist" with all the jewelry she owned and carried the derringer because she was THE crack shot of the Ladies Baptist Shooting and Archery Club, AND because her mother told her NOT to have it in the photo................................................ In all seriousness, do you think that in a century someone will look at a photo of you and your kids and speculate that you must have been animal activists and botanists because there is a kitten and a house plant in the photo? Or that photo of you in leg warmers (because they were SO fashionable) and deduce that you were a Broadway chorus dancer?[/QUOTE]
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