Photographs reveal something profound when they capture people moving beautifully—seeing indigenous populations carrying heavy loads with ease, children sitting in perfect J-spine, elders in traditional cultures standing with grace and strength well into their later years.
Old Family Photos Are a Great Posture Tool: Part 1: Upper Body
If you are fortunate and have photographs going back three, four, or even more generations, you likely possess a compelling tool for posture improvement. How and why exactly are these images so useful?
Abraham Lincoln with his youngest son, Tad, 1864. Wikipedia
The invention of photography allows us to look back in time as far as the 1840s. It is rare to possess family photographs going this far back, both because heirlooms tend to get lost over time, and because fewer photographs were taken then due to the cost of the elaborate processes in those times. But many of us have portraits of our great grandparents’ generation—whose posture is usually much healthier than what we see today.
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