Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-17
VANITY In PICTUR Es


A NiIN PUHINil ES
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Women, as "a Rule. Insist Tint They
Must Be Made sprc;ty-Follss With
croo,sca roc..-rh. OLD Lus. WHO
"There couldn't possibly be q better
place TO study human nature than in a
photograph gallery" said we'll known
photographer the other day "Of course,
you have heard this before; but, really.
we do meet some queer characters and
have experiences that are amusing, even
though they are trying
For instance, some impossible subject
will come in. We will do all that the
photographers skid is capable Of, re-
touch. take ont the wrinkles and mike
her as pretty as possible. Then when
she sees the photograph she looks griev
ed, hurt and indignant all at once.
.Why. that doesn't look a hit like me-
she will cxcltiln Than. ii she has
friend with her, She Will turn and say:
We'll, my coiorne is my chief charm.
anyway, and, III course, it's all lost in
photograph. YES. You may send them up.
but they're the last III ever have taken
Another type is the woman who never
expects 10 have good photograph. be-
cause my features never look 81 well in
reposc, but when ts,s. don't You know.
my face is full of animation OF course
everybody realizes tie truth of this pvopo-
sitiou, hut every lomely woman makes
ii her excuse aue! keeps emphasizing ii.
] much prefer the CANTOR OF young wo-
man who came in the other day and M
nctneed that She wanted n pretty picture
ana didn't care whether it looked like her
or not.
".I,tn going 70 send this AWAY to some
relatives haven't sneri for years aud
viii probably never seq ,,.alit1. bur want
n 10 lfos y, rretiy that they will ;tn,nedi
ately exclai1n. WHY. how Elizabeth has
changed,
"a man is generally driven TO have his
picture taken.,' said another photog-
rapher. 1.-The old men are made to come
by their daughters and the Young men ly
their sweethearts You know there is a
great fad amen. you,ig people Just now
for loctct pictures. A girl doesn't hest
fate MT all TO say, Il want a locket picture
3 far my ,ianee.' while ninn will simply
say he wants n litfle picture. until we
pilulp it on Of him that it is for !, locket
In my opinion VERY few men care for
their own pictures, but simply have them
tnken Y.lae1, some woman insists on IL.
They viii come IN and get the proofs.
saving. Well. don't know ANYTHING
ai5uut this. hut I'll send back the one
limit, wanted A girl. On the other hand,
never wants n man to see her picture M
iii IL is entirely finished nnd all the lines
taken out .
III is becoming a sort Of fad with the
best photographers now to make portraits
of elderly men and women leaving every
line and wrinkle IN, aud the public is
CROWN. To learn the artistic value of this
work which. If course. is great sd.
vance fro,,h. the stereotyped pleasant
lool, OF bysone days.
81 am not All ali in sympathy with tie
idea that the public is a fool' said an
other promincnt artist who has photo
: GRABBED many celebrities in his long pro
fessional career. "4An artist is supposed
from his exnerienee and education in ar
j 10 be better able 10 dispose of lines an,
I. forms and adjust lights than the layman
] but the public pays the freight and Ger
tainly has rights that Photographic
should recognize Many subjects, how
{ ever. are blind to their pecnliarites o
: faults. and it may surprise you to lear
I that the human face is rarely perfec
G bit Of symmetry. the two sides often dill
e ferin. widely. But that is long story
5 Even families do not know of peculia
). distinctions in the faces of their ow
j household. I once took photograph o
: a lady whose face was remarkable in thi
respect, the difference between the CORR
cular and corner of the mouth being full
!. half an inch. j did all that my skill coul
suggest in lights. posing. etc, but coul
e not conceal the unsynmetrical lines
When she saw the proof, she threw
t down Indignantly, exclaming. Surely II
t face is not crooked. But it was.
al have found little difference in the IL
i rrees Of vanity in men and women" col
:, timed the photographer. "The surpri
. ing element entered when plain OIL
n farmer who probably Ind not looked I'M
s = mirror for n generation came in for
;, photograph and became not only fuss
n and obstreperous, but very critical.
if at is ycry hard for some to know the