More than a century ago, a teenager named Abigail Roberson had her photo taken at a professional studio in upstate New York. The photo wasn’t particularly scandalous—Roberson is pictured from the shoulders up, looking away from the camera—but it achieved the 1890s version of virality and set off a legal debate about…
How a 19th Century Teenager Sparked a Battle Over Who Owns Our Faces
By Ishaan Jhaveri
October 25, 2018 at 08:25AM
via Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/how-a-19th-century-teenager-sparked-a-battle-over-who-o-1829572319