New-York tribune., 1875-03-04
PICTURES.

There are many ways IN which person
may come to be much photographed. He or
she may be in the lecturng line or the Thes-
plan line, and find physiOgnomy good ad-
vertiscment. lie or she may be in the petty
larceny line and so hold delicate relations to
the police. He or she may have hun dreds of
dear friends who have Turkey morocco al
buns, bulgng if not broken backed. For
various reasons of cheapness, facility, business,
or the great increase in this age of celebrated,
ilustriOus, and notorious characters, the mys-
terry of portrait manufacture is usually thriv-
ing, both in the BOwcry and Broadway. The
man, woman or child who has never been
photographed, is what, in defiance of correct
metaphor, we make bold to call rare bird
q sable swan or cygnet, so to speak. During
trial not yet completed, witress stated
that he had "a little collection of his own of
Photographic cards of distinguished people,
"perhaps One Hundred and Fifty" There
never was such an age as this for Fame !!
Then it turned out that the wife of the wit
ness had also her little collection of some
seventy or eighty Distinguished People; and
it seems to be popularity of Genius to rush
into rcpettion-to be taken in the prone, the
perpendicular, and the sedentary state to be
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and white, or in polycnromatic affluence, at
whole length, at half length, at no length, and
all head, as becomes an intellectual char
acter.
But though the name of the Celebrated is
Legion, the facc-takers would do a compare
lively small business if it were not for the
Obscure. The fact is, anybody can be famous
in his own family and among his own friends,
popular in his own circle, and the pertina-
ciousy demanded of tea parties. The little
stranger who il so soon at home will be car
ried to the saloon the moment there is the
least stiffness in his small spine. The boy
Jack will go as a matter of course upon the
acquisition of his first breeches; Molly viii
follow upon achieving long skirts; Maria
when she is "engaged' with the young man
to whom, &C., and Tom upon leaving for
college or counting room. AS for Pa and Ma
and Grandpa and Grandma ard Uncle and
Aunt and the crowd of cousinhoOd, are they
not all IN the bulgy Album aforesaid THAT
shrine Of self-cOnsciousness, that cabinet of
coats and hats and best silk dresses and clean
collars and beautiful chairs and sofas l-there
in solitary state, there in spans, there in
groups, some of them staring into vacancy,
ooAhc VI 'hcHi onliluS VIII painful dDlllOIllty,
some of them pretending to read or write, and
deceiving nobodyf Dear ornaments of the
comfortable, what Il resource you are when
the coloquial faculty has quite broken down,
the talk grown small by degrees and painfully
less "This is your fatheri" "Yes." "Ah!
"your sister," "Yes." "And this is Tom p"
eyes" you pretty incOrporat d Affirmative |!
For you are really pretty-a bidding rose, q
graceful lily. one of the incest little objects in
this world What a pity it is though you say
it so sweetly that you can say nothing but
"Yes." Go and be photographed-it is all
you are good for, except to say EYES," when
your Fate shall arrive in number seven boots,
an Oxford tie, and his own fresh photograph
in his pocket.
Before we had given great many days and
nights to the study of this important subject,
we used most unjustly to sneer at those WHO
were perpetually facing tho camera. 1t may
come of personal vanity; but, on the other
hand. it may be an affectionate desire to please
others who are hard indeed to please. For, of
late, people tired perhaps of saying "How
like" have taken to saying How unlike ~
To cry at once, 20 it does MT look at all like
"you!" is to show critical Judgment, and per-
haps to insert one of those sharp pins which
we are all so fond of sticking into our dear
est friends. Mary is pleased with her picture.
for she thinks it pretty, while it took her two
hours and half to do her hair up In that
style; and she does MT feel good when dear