Mothers disguised as armchairs

[duckweed]

http://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2012/01/05/hidden-mothers-in-victorian-portraits/

I just found this so weird but interesting

 

[gibbo]

Well that is certainly different DW.

I suppose now we'll all be checking for disguised mothers when looking at old photos :biggrin:

 

[duckweed]

They go on to say that they have some similar photos which some people claim are actually of dead babies but another friend who knows about these things said it was more likely to be with the mother visible in those circumstances.

 

[jay]

One way of keeping the children from wriggling when the photograph was being taken. I have a photo' of my sister and me and the photographer had to put a cloth over my mother's arm ... she was holding me because I wouldn't keep still.

 

[duckweed]

My problem is I have 3 children but when you tried to photograph all three together there was always one that pulled a face. It is nigh impossible to get 3 children to stay still and not muck about but if I had tried to do the armchair trick they still would have pulled faces and probably would have pulled the cloth off too.

 

[gibbo]

Pulling faces in photos isnt just for kids neither, my father is in his mid 70's and pulls faces in photos :2fun::2fun: