Turning the Left Cheek Examined using Modern Photography

Abstract

McManus and Humphrey's investigation into turning the left cheek in formal portraits¹ from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries prompted me to check two 1972 school yearbooks for the same phenomenon. I found a similar tendency to expose the left side of the face more than the right. I found, however, no significant differences between sexes and seem to have discovered a difference between groups in left preference.