We are fucked up. The have gas masks, we have nicki minaj. They had hitler, we have Justin beiber. Also a couple of these pictures are newer than you'd think, and are just taken in black and white. An example being the kids wearing Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye masks. Donald Duck was invented soon after color photography became popular.
Here's another thought to help your nightmare fuel...
Some of those pictures, the really old ones where some of the people look dead? They probably are.
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At the beginning of photography, it was a very expensive and time consuming process. Namely because of slow exposure times , you needed to sit still for a long time for a photograph. The people that can sit still the best are dead people.
Often, the only picture that people in those days would have taken of them was after they were dead.
It apparently became a short lived tradition to have a "death photo" taken to memorialize their passing.
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G'Night kids!
That is exactly why the fourth picture down creeps me out so much. The guy in the background had to be standing there, perfectly still for long enough to be in the photo, but he looks like an accidental photobomber. That and he looks like fucking Freddy Kruger.
I've seen the fifth picture before. I read that they used to hide the mother in photos with young children so they'd be calm and sit still while they were taking the picture.
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Some of those pictures, the really old ones where some of the people look dead? They probably are.
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At the beginning of photography, it was a very expensive and time consuming process. Namely because of slow exposure times , you needed to sit still for a long time for a photograph. The people that can sit still the best are dead people.
Often, the only picture that people in those days would have taken of them was after they were dead.
It apparently became a short lived tradition to have a "death photo" taken to memorialize their passing.
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G'Night kids!
This is scaring me so much I think I will cry