Those who were having their portraits taken put on their best clothes. They would sit in a big hall, arranged according to age, the eldest receiving the place of highest honor. Those who took the pictures had no understanding of art; they had no professional concept of what they should try to depict. The important motivation for taking the picture was the photograph's most basic utility: creating a record.
被拍照的人穿上最好的衣服，在大廳上依長幼倫序正襟危坐；那個時代，拍照的人也不懂什麼是藝術，沒有主觀意識想要表達什麼，拍照的主要目的在照相的最原始功能﹘﹘記錄上。