The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-02
NOVEL PHOTOGRAPHS.
Combining Two People and Making
a Horse Ride a Man.

Combining Two People and Making
Horse Ride "A Man.
A French photographer has pleased
Paris, always charmed with novelty,
by introducing extraordinary photo
graphic combinations through an ingeni-
Gus arrangement of mirrors. The results
he attasns are novel, surprising and some
times sensational. as, for instance. his
bona fide photograph Of a well-known
Partisan being ridden in the street by his
horse. Grotesque combinations, such as
this, are, of course. familiar to us all.
for photographers have long been able to
produce very curious effects by employ
ing figures from several negatives in one
print, says a correspondent of the New
York Herald.
The beauty of this last Photographic
novelty is. however that the prints do
not give away the process, as the old
fashioned built-up postures and incon-
gruous discords of the composition, but
appear to be single, instantaneous
glimpses of real scenes of an altogether
impossible nature. They are clever enough
to deceive an expert, or to make a super
stitious person almost believe in mira
Giles.
All Paris is enthusiastic over one of his
pictures In particular. 1t is a photCgra ph
OF a gentleman in evening dress, with the
face of his iancee daintlly poised on his
iInmac ulate shirt front. The girls face
seems to be as much a part of the mans
figure as is his head. and not merely n
picture stamped on the white linen
bosom
The feat is accomplished by posing the
figures in such a way that they are re-
fiected from the maze of mirrors directly
inf aUQ Of the GnrnaffxTaac "a
woman's face is reproduced in a similar
form, and in the shape of heart, and Is
so arranged as to take the place of the or
gan in which the god of love is popularity
supposed to dwell.
Photographs taken by this mirror pro-
cess show people in every conceivable po-
sition. For Instance, two brothers are
photographed to appear as one balanced
upside down ON the others head. AS both
are in evening dress, from patent leather
pumps to crush hats, it Is difficult TO de-
eide which one has the picture right side
up. Pictures of animals in all conceivable
positions are fad Of this photographer
whose art often takes a humorous turn
A very small snake in the act OF swallow
ing an unusually large elephant is fa-
vorite with those who have a sense Of the
ridiculous. Other pictures, however, lean
to tragic, rather than the comic.
A pyramid Of babies. to the number Of a
score, is another picture Whlch attracts
a great deal Of interest, for, though the
tots are still in the long clothes period of
existence. they appear to balance them
selves with all the sang froid Of profession
al acrobats.
One large photograph which the Parish
an camera juggler lately exhibited at an
exhibition Of pictures, noted more for their
oddity than the popular character OF their
subjects. Is probably the most grewsome
OF any he has yet taken. This photograph
portrays an exceedingly beautiful woman
dressed as for a ball, through whose body
the bare arm Of a man Is thrust the hand
clasping the handle of a sword that Is
dripping with blood The woman's face is
distorted. as though with pain, and she
seems about to fall TO the ground.
Point Of view.-"Bilker. you ought TO
be ashamed to wear such good clothes
when you owe me 80 much money" mo;
you ought TO be proud 10 lend money 10 a