New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-21
s,TiSF,cTJOy IN LIKEyESSES.

A test case of great concern to photogra-
pliers and of considerable interest to the pubic
il before q Brooklyn court. For seventeen
successive times young lady faced ule
camera. Duly after each successive sitting
the photographer sent the evidences OF his
labor for criticism and possible acceptance
None of the pictures suited. AT last the aoy
declined to sit again, and the gentleman VINO
had originally made the contIact-it II can DC
so called-decliped to take any of the pictures
or to pay for anything done The photographer
has brought before the court his seventeen
negatives and proofs, doubtless quoting liam
let. Look now upon this picture and on this''
His labor in preparing them amounts TO GER
tain sum of money, to recover which he mas
sued. There were the front face, and the sac
face. and the half-avericd gaze; the chm u III
file more M: the sad look the faint smile;
the expression of being very much pieaSed
more in fact than the lady actually was ana
consequently not at all truthful picture
There were also the standing portrait, ana the
one with hand no to the head in POSITION OF
reflection: the one with the HAIR drawn pach
and the one with it let down; the one
with the necklace the one with the furs, ana
the one that seemed as if it might have suited,
with the last new thing of a bonnet. All these
the lady, and the gentleman, and all their
friends, and now the jury, have contemplated
As Beau Brummcl's valet said Of the mornings
bundle of tried and rejected neckties, "lheSe
care our failures"
The defendant replies 70 all this array OF
testimony that his agreement with tail
young man in the rooms was simply that
portrait would be obtained that should give
satisfaction that failing, nothing was to he
paid. The Autociat Of the Breakfast Table
has told us how that same requisite OF si'tis-
"factionr tortured him with anxiety when
lyccum trustees specified it a u condition oil
his lectures. To promise satisfaction Ill tbiS
part of the country is almost Us serious mat
ter as to demand it, further south. SO far as
photographers are concerned, they nave put
themselves in the yOcatiye, where they nave
adopted such method of doing business ~ Is
in evidence. The usual experience Is,
when % photograph does not suit, an
other and another attempt Is made, I'LL
all parties to the transaction are Weallcd
beyond endurance and at last the sitter,
grown desperate, takes what does not really
give the coveted satlsfactiOn--takcs any OF the
that people who go all through the woods to
look for cane usually put up with a crooked
stick. Most persons get into this condition
of despair before they have settled themselves
for the seventeenth time to gaze at the black
cloth. to he asked to throw up the chin ana
to look smiling. We're human nature not 80
constituted, the business of phOiogrdphing
lkcnesscs would have to be recognized. or 1t
could scarcely last fortnight.
For all that appears in the Brooklyn ease,
which probably offers a fair specimen OF this
sort of agreement, if the sitter had been Will
ing to go on with the attempts at getting
likeness they might have continued indefi-
niely till the golden tresses OF youth were
whitened with the SHOWS OF age. But camera
sittngs are like the infinite denomiDators OF
mathematics with every new figure obtained,
they grow more clumsy. The suit under con-
sidelation suggests, however, new feature III
the problem. Suppose a gentleman has made
this bargain respecting a lady's portrait. Sup
pose also, the lady becomes tired OF the eX-
pertinent. and putting the sole of her number
three fatty on the ground, declares that she
will not present herself before the camera
again. Photographers probably have some
rights as well az wrongs. Can they compel
the gentleman to find a substitutes
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