Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-02
NEWSPAPER CUTS.
They Have Come TO stay and are Rap
idly Improving In style.


They Have Come TO stay aud are Rap
idly Improving In style.
OF course ii Is very easy to sneer
at the modern newspaper cut as In
no wise thing OF beauty. Much too
often the newspaper picture is
vague aud shadowy blur. which OPP
presses the reader with a sense OF
melancholy and causes him TO regret
the disappearance OF the staid old
journalism of other days. which
frowned upon Illustrations as 1t
would upon any unprofesstonal
tendency in the ranks
The sensational journal frequently
lets the artist monopoize It's most
valuable columns with Incorporating
and ill-drawn pictures, but that Il no
reason why the whole practice OF
newspaper Illustration should be
abandoned. The simple truth Of the
matter is that the reading public Of
this year OF grace 1898 would regret
exceedingly u return 10 those days g
dozen or fiiteen years ago, when
cut In the daily paper outside the
HAAElk ALiEAAAkAAtH NtA u AAeA " 80
an extreme rarity. The average news,
paper reader may not realize al FIRST
thought how much he has come 20
depend upon the newspaper artist for
his daily enjoyment. but let the lat.
ter individual cease from his labors
and hue and cry would immediately
go mp III the announcement OF nm
important presidential appointment
were not accompanied straightway
by portrait Of the fortunate APP
pointee. II the great eonhagratlon
were not pictured in something elsa
than cold type; II the fashionable 500
ciety event, the railway accident or
the Inauguration Of the municipal or
state government were not presented
in graphic outlines a few hours after
its occurrence. we should have a gen
eral complaint 1t is not enough
that Jenkins shall describe these orr
binary happenings Ia his usual
catchy and agreeable manner. Tho
artist must supplement his descrlp-
ti0n with few wetl-drawn plctart.s
or tho pablo viii know the reason
why.
Those tinical critics who rail- az
the newspaper pictures a. crude
and unsatisfactory thing ought % 70.
member that IA the last ten or a
dozen years Il has made great nd
vance IN all respects a comparison
Of the average daily journal 81
to-day with "a predecessor Of
1883, for example. wuaid show bot
ter than auy words can do how sub.
stautial an improvement has taken
place both In tho artistic deiineation
o. the scenes and events portrayed
and ia The processes by which tho
original drawings have becn placed
before tho newspaper reader Not a
month passes without tho intyoduc.
tinn ~ new fashion In shading or
outline or some other technical fea-
ture Of detail and most.'if not all 81
these. are in the direction Of pcrma-
nently better pictures
Our best newspaper illustrations
to-day are equal. IL not superior. 20
the book cngrayiugs " few years
ago The newspaper artist. In spite
y his hurry, has mustered the knack
OF light and SPADE and distance aud
proportion SO we'll that oven on
rough paper and n muddy ink his
pictures stand out oficntimes In very
satisfactory relief In tho rcproduo.
tiou Of photographs some very real.
istic results have been obtained In
outlines, and newspaper portraits
have come 20 b. IN many instances
quite as luminous a those which ap.
pear In the monthly magazines.