Smiling is a biological reflex. Babies practice smiling as soon as they are born, their bodies rehearsing this essential human gesture. But to smile for the camera, to mug and pose, is a strictly a learned habit. Historians say that the photographic grin not only a recent ritual, but also a somewhat artificial one: abetted by the camera industry, and entwined with the rise of cheerfulness as an American cultural norm.

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