The seemingly bizarre tintype shown above is an example of a nineteenth-century image created using the 'hidden mother' technique Most infants during that time were photographed with their mothers holding them.
The intended picture was ultimately headed for a frame or mat, so the child would sit in the mothers lap for the photo. When the picture was taken, the mother simply was cropped out to serve as the backdrop.
(via Neatorama)
3 comment(s):
They still do this today!
Yes! the pictures of my children when they were babies are similar to this. They put them on a rug and the parent sits off to one side with their hand holding the back of the baby's dress or shirt from under the rug so they don't tip over. We just didn't need to crop them later.
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