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Saturday, April 10, 2021


Somewhat unusually for the time, we can actually see some of this model's body hair.
19th Century flash photography often "blanched out" body hair.

 

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  1. I wondered why the males in so many of these old photos always seemed so hairless and pasty. Now it makes sense. I like the carpet.

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  2. Bleached out in reference to over-exposure. This can happen either as the photo is taken or during the printing process. And nowadays what is left of these ancient pictures are probably several generations old, and not from the original negative or an original print.

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    1. Multiple reprints and scans do indeed add to this issue, and those original flash apparatuses sometimes started off overexposed . . . or too dark. We see that, too.

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