Time to vote for April Image of the Month (IotM). All MobiTog members are eligible to vote. Voting ends May 7.
There had to be a first.The First Known Photograph of People Having a Beer (1843)
It should go without saying that one should drink responsibly, for reasons pertaining to life and limb as well as reputation. The ubiquity of still and video cameras means potentially embarrassing moments can end up on millions of screens in an instant, copied, downloaded, and saved for posterity.www.openculture.com
It's the casual look of the subjects that's fascinating to me -- so much more relaxed than what we usually see in 19th century photos of people. I ran across one other like this from roughly the same time period, a photo of four young men in someone's college rooms (if I remember correctly), but I've been unable to find it again. Either these guys are extraordinarily talented models or there was at least one antique photo process that didn't require the long exposures we're so often told about.
