The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-23

not be bagged by any slouchy sportsman
There is always one certain position in
which a man appears at his best. This one
position the photographer must find, and
that quickly, and seize his opportunity to
take picture the moment the man is in
that position. When Mr.. Wilkie Collins
came to me, discovered at once pecuk
iarity of facial expression when he talked
about his own books which was most inter
esting, so while he answered kindly 9ues-
ton or two from me about his Woman In
White" / made quick exposure, feeling
that l had taken the great novelist at his
best, and so it proved. When he returned
to England, he wrote me: You have taken
just the sort of photograph / like. Those
taken of me over here are perfect libels but
j feel like giving your pictures 10 all my
friends"
Mark Twain and Sir Edwin Arnold.
The last picture / made of Mark Twain
was also snap shot and was also the best
/ have taken of him. met the humocist
on the street. His long iron gray hair tum-
bled over his coat collar and stuck out from
under his hat, giving his head a massive
appearance of the old type of patriarch
Mark Twain" / said, catching hold Of
him, Il want you TO let me take your head
5ust as it is. Don't go to the barber until
you see me-" He consented and came to
my studio in a few days, when l secured a
photograph of which am justly proud
Another instance: Sir Edwin Arnold
soon after his arrival here came to me say
ing: "Sarony. want you TO make pho
tograph of me wherein my nose shall be a
straight nose. The English photographers, -
he went on, have never made that feature
look right in my photographs Now, can
you?" / observed him attentively a mo-
ment, and then l said, Sir Edwin, when
You were baby you sucked your thumb,
pressing your forefuger against the right
side of your nose and making there an in
Gentation which To a trained eve is still
perceptible." Then / simply photographed
the left side of Sir Edwin's face instead of
the right side-the side which the English
photographers had evidently insisted upon
taking. have often had people TO ask me
which side of a person i usually photo
graph. Then they will add: The right
side. Of course. That always the best side.
isn't it?" And this absurd statement has
more than oEce been made by persons whom
] had every reason 10 suppose were perfect
ly sane.
President Cleveisnd's Last Picture.
Another essential in making a snap shot,
II il Is to be successful, Is magnetism. A
silent chord must be struck. There must
be harmony or sympathy, or whatever You
may choose to call it, between the sitter
and the photographer l myself must be
IN perfect sympathy with my subject before
can make a good picture. This accounts
Tor the difference between the first photo
graphs which | took OF Mr. Cleveland and
the last. When he first came to sit for me.
he was cold, reserved and naughty. Ac-
tordlngiy the photograph which l made of
him bespoke those characteristics. Not so
the last ones, however for On this occasion
he graspeG my hand with great warmth
and said very cordially. Napoleon. can't
Etay away from YOU" At last We were
friendly, and the photographs taken on that
occasion show the friendlineSs of the man.
Now as 10 the artistic essentials. In the
first place Is he photographer an artists