Those old enough to remember actual family photo albums will recall the horrible, flat or super-overexposed harsh light from a built-in flash.
Most of these pictures were taken during a completely random event – you know, while eating, or pointing at something off-camera, maybe yelling during a festive period. While the fashion choices of relatives or friends are recorded to live on forever through journalism of the elder kind. Like a stain on the character of the poor souls' life and fashion choices.
