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forzest review The 19th century did things differently. “In America it was common practice for the mother, or other caretaker, to hold the child steady during the long exposure, since any wriggling would blur the image,” explains Linda Fregni Nagler, an Italian-Swedish photographer who is based in Milan and has collected over a thousand of these early mother-and-baby photographs. “Yet at the same time, the mother was expected to hide any sign that she was actually in the frame.” The results were frequently bizarre, with the viewer expected somehow to ignore the creepy figure that loomed in the background like a bulky ghost.