Victorian Photo Retouching: The Original Instagram Filter
During the Edwardian and Victorian era photo retouching was all the craze. Photographers would retouch the actual negatives to eliminate wrinkles, harsh lighting, or even sculpt or shave down features. Jocelyn Sears has a fantastic piece on this titled, “ 8 Odd Beauty Standards in Turn-of-the-Century Photographs”, over at Mental Floss.