The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-22
FACING THE IMPRESSIONIST.
Camera Artist Takes NOtableS in His CWn
Way. Refusing "Uninttrestln6' Ones.
REFUSED HRS. SECRETARY LAMONT.
"Pay CASH" He Said To Mrs. sloane fonr
brother Cornelius Owes Ne $50"
Ordering Mrs. George Gouid
from the Room to Get
the Profile.

Copyright. 1886, for The Times)
There is a photographer in New York
city who is making fortune taking
impressionist photographs. These are,
as their name signifies, impressions
When YOU have been photographed by
this man you viii see yourself as others
see you. Not line is removed from the
natural countenance not an expression
simulated, not pose given. GU are
photographed as you are.
one day about a month ago Mrs. WI
liam j.. Sloane walked into the STUDIO
OF this photographer. who, by the way
is not located in an extremely fashion
able neighborhood, neither has he one
Of the ultra-uXurious studios o. the
Fifth avenue photographers. - want
to be taken" said she. in twelve DIFF
feroLt poses. / am going 10 have a
portrai: painted and / want these actual
likencsses OF myself TO assist the paint
err"
What Is your name?" asked the pho
tographer, lingering the 7Gsteboard.
"Ah. yes. / see, Mrs. William Douglass
Sloane! You are a sister Of Cornelius
Vanderbilt aren't you? Your daughter
married James a. Burden. jr., at Lcnox
last spring.
"Yes-yes:" assentod Mrs Sloane
"Wel. I'll take picture Of you, but
you'll have to pay cash. I've had OK
perience with your family. Cornelius
Vanderbilt owes me SO"
My brother has been In Europe" muir
INJURED the lady. fumbling in her purse.
"and am not sure 1 have money enough
with me-"
Get it. then" snapped the artist.
Mrs. Sloane's maid made trip TO tho
waiting carriage and gave an order 10
adjusting the lenses
1--WE taken your picture" announce
he a minute later.
Taken my picture? lmpossitel'
''Not impossible at all. Don't l know
something about instantaneous work
What do you suppose n picture would n'
like to an improssionist If the subjco'
posed for ii? Fine impression work D.
would be-"
How many poses have you given me-
1.-TWO"
'But / want a dozen
you can't have them. You are n
woman with only two impressions. You
look well when amused and when angry.
At other times you are hfeless and IN
sipid. without expression or interest. 1
will send you the pictures when they are
done" dihn.i
"But the proofs?"
"Baaw sneered the artist. walking into
another room. And that was all the
satisfaction the lady could get. The
maid meanwhile returned with the money
which was put down-Sl5 for each sit
ting-and Mrs. Sloane departed.
The pictures when completed showed
a tall smiling woman with the most
laughing eyes ever seen. They came out
wonderfully from a background OF mud
color If she had opened her mouth and
spoken you would not have been sur
prised The other was of scOrn, anger,
disdain. and the upper lip had sus-
picion Of patrician curl. No laughter
grande dame ever graced camera work.
The lady was delighted with the result
and says she is going TO face the &C.
centric lion in his plain little den again
in the hope of getting more poses. But
she will not succeed. This man never
forgets face and never goes back upon
a decision.
MRS. LsMOSI's REBUFF.
one day Mrs Daniel Lamont found
her way into this studio on account Of
the wonderful things she had heard OF
il. She had her children with her, In
Guiding Frances Cleveland Lamont Mrs
Lamont is herself clever photographer
There were several people waiting IN
the studio, but Mrs. Lamont, mindful
of the prestige Of the wife OF the Sec
rotary of War, sent in her card al once
and not receiving an immediate answer,