The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01
WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
THEIR NUMBER INCREASING BECAUSE
OF SUPERIOR WORK

OF SUPERIOR WORK.
Patience and Delicate Taste Have Won
for Them success-Most of Them Began
as Amateurs-Their Experience In Out
Door Views and With Difficult Subjects.
There are nearly dozen professional women
photographers working successfully in New York
to day, where four years ago there was only one
half uncertain pioneer Besides these are num-
Der OF free lances, who have their immediate trade
quarters in suburban places. bu, who depend OH
New York for orders. supplies and inspiration
Apparently only those women peculiarly fitted
for ii have entered the business, for few failures
are recorded. All who started have kept going
and there is less hint Of the struggle and survival
OF the ittest than attaches TO the history OF other
callings that have become popular for women
Whether she set up her camera in New York
Washington or Chicago. or travelled along with
II in the wake of the fashionable set at Newport
Narrag ansett Pier or the winter resorts the thor
oughgoing woman photographer has found
success a success generally attributed to indus
try and artistic intuition. In nearly every case
she will be found to have singled out some par
tcular branch Of the work for special attention
One young woman made u new field for herself
in taking mountain views and outdoor scenes for
sale at the mountain houses and summer cottages.
She has pursued the business successfully for
two summers. She does not appear ON the ground
ready armed with stack Of pictures to cell az
other women take stock Of baby sacks pin
cushions or opera bags TO dispose Of but takes
the views TO order at the suggestion of guests
who think such and such bits Of scenery familiar
TO them would make all acceptable souvenir The
photographs are printed and finished in a work
manlike manner and mounted SO as TO harmonic
in shape and tint with the character Of the scene
Many Of the most admired views in the popular
better known localities are captured by this clever
operator. and, being a fearless climber she has
famliarized herself with out-of the way hooks
and aspects that the average hotel guest is de
barred from, so there is novelty as well the
familiar quality TO attract interest in her work
In this young artists opinion nobody can serve
two masters quite as efficiently as one and having
become habituated TO taking outdoor views sue
cessfully and to understanding the conditions to
be COPIED with she does not intend to get her hand
out by doing interior pictures She is the chief
| itinerant photographer Of her sex and the only
one doing professional outdoor work Her travels
| are planned for the double purpose of taking
such outdoor scenes pictures OF private grounds
well as other scenery as people want taken
and securing fresh material for artistic practice.
| This winter she will exhibit her handiwork at the
| city hotels and winter resorts and the hotel pro
prietors will put stone in her way, for the at
pleasant places TO go 10.
Another woman photographer Of the unan-
tached, no settled studio type, devotes herself 10
| the interior Of city homes and Offices. She has
| the apt disposal Of furniture and draperes with
| view TO the best Photographic effect, at her fin
ger ends and is often employed by the art journals
and advertising quarterlies 10 illustrate articles
| on textile fabrics chamber and library furnish
| ings and the like. Interior decorators and an
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| up also well paying private custom.
| There IL a woman up Harlem way. who proba-
bly, takes more photographs OF babies in the course
Of a year than any two Of the noted photographing
| firms OF the city. Infants difficult 10 take"
| The average photographer as soon as he can
afford to dispense with the baby trade does so, or
else charges exceptionally high prices for taking.
| Every mothers baby Of them. all rich poor, how
ever has to be photographed and often a much
| priced youngster has his picture taken every
| month so that his development and attachments
| may be noted The woman photographer in
| Harlem has wonderful way with babies The
crossest OF them yields TO her II by magic. and
| babies are brought 10 her by the score, some ac-
companied by the photographs made Of them by
other artists photOgia phs that the mother brought
along Just to show how outlandish that man
photographer made the darling look. The baby
specialist pleases all these mothers, and babys
aunts ana cousins az well WIN her taxing
| picture Of the young one, but she gets the main
| hulk Of her work from the orphan asylums and
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| infants homes IL IL someuines more necessary
| that an orphan baby should have It's picture taken
| cl.ycrlv than that A petted child should be sue
cessfuly captured No sooner is there a little
| helpless one given into the hands of an infants
| home matron, Founding Institute, than they
are on inc LOOKOUT ior some one I" auop' H. he
| Childless lady up at Rochester, or over at Hing
| ham dawn South or ONT West whom they know
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| a number Of photographs TO select from. 50 often
| of n bright morning in the Harlem studio there
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VIII De three' or lOur' or hNe nnprs toge'her H"h
the same institution, all awaiting the photograph
| e,,s manifestations Not only with babies but
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| with Two ana urec-yearolns' lhlS pno"gfaPhef
| is successful. She has world Of resource at