The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09
WOMAN BEFORE The CAMERA.
THE PHOTOGR4PHERS DAY or
TROi BILE Ar HAND.
Difficulties OF Making All women Besuii.
ful-Dangrr OF Letting some He
(SH-Nay OF the Actresses Men
the Photographers star Customers.

The photographer shook some tiny pellets
from ii vial. cooked one eye and looked
pleasant.
Nerve tonic" he remarked. az he swal-
lowed the remedy. Getting ready for my
busy season. II ! am not wreck by tho
morning Of Dec. 25 il won't he the fault
of my customers.
Talk about troubles, II | were to sit
down and think If mine. ID 20 crazy, but
I've learn,o 10 look upon the III my side "
my daily round with -itters.
II all my sitters were men, II would 10
easy; Very few men are urgr TO photo
graphers studio by motives Of vanity.
sually. they do il To ublise an adoring
family. or they are in the public eve and
being Photographed j. part OF their
business.
Men expect to have their pictures look
like them. Women expect to he idpalized.
A photographer must be a hairdresser.
dresstnak.r and tailor. Also, he must be Q
surgeon in order to correc, on the negative
any defects, triHing or otherwise. in the
sitters physique.
~Superfiuous flesh on the waist line.
neck. shoulders or hips must be removed.
On the other hand If the woman Is scrawny,
with hills and valleys on her neck and
shoulders. and wrinkles galore. all these
excavations must be filed out.
such trifes as n strengthening crooked
noses. reducing freckes and inserting a
Clpid's bow III uncompromisng lips are
| entirely within the phot ographer's province.
| II girl IN too short to tie Gibsonesque.
| stand her on a book which is carefully
| concealed by a skirt that is Il bit too long
| for her.
But the one thing that tries a photo
graphers soul IL 10 have woman OF IS
| or 40 bring in the very photograph she
wants, an IDEAL head Of a girl Of Is or 20.
requesting that her picture be posed. draped
! and lighted Just like this The pho-
1 tlRranipY az ALWAYS does this
| -In the long run, il il best for us to ideal
| ize pictures. II Is surprising the number
| Of plain people who possess strong charac-
tiers and desire honest ikenesscs. They
| insist that they shall not be fattered and
! 40 sacrifice the photographer.
That is, while they are satisfied with tho
likeness. their friends. with the best inten-
| tons, And fault with the pictures because
they are not pretty to look upon, and IN
pleasing the one Gust omer who didn't want
fat,ery, the photographer loses several
| prospective ones.
As rule women are exceedingly patient
about posing and will try. try again until
] both sitter and phot ographer are satisfied.
| Strange as II may seem, a photographer
in a large city lays scarcely any value on
the custom of what Is known As the 400.
While being recognized as photographer
in-ordnary to the smart set serves as an
advert isement with social climbers, the
photographers do not regard such custom
as promptly rernunerative.
| the 400 want the best work, object 10
the price thereof and make the pho-
tographer wal, anywhere from three to six
months for his money. They are insulted
IL he presents his bill sooner, and then they
proceed 10 forget his existence
Members Of the theatrical profession
lond themselves most readily To pho
Biography and would he the best customers
the photographer has II their money was
good But they hate to part with their
hard-oarncd salaries-for photographs.
They have an idea that We ought to bs
glad TO supply them with photographs
b1caus" their exceeding beauty serves to
foot wants fifty pictures for nothing, Of
course--and assures us that she will send
us just lots of trade when all the girls have
seen her photographs. But she does not
| realize that each one Of those dear girls will
endeavor TO work the same little advertising
graft
AN actress must be beautiful in her
pictures whatever she may be on the stage
or in private life. 1t is not uncommon for
a manager to say:
Now, you must give us some pretty
pictures OF Miss So-and-So. Oh, yes,
| know she is homely, hut IL won't do to send
out that sort OF a picture. just plump up
her figure bit and take the hump Of her
| nose, No. the pictures won't look like
her, but they will look we'll
Many persons who are charming on ths
stage make poor Photographic subjects.
Take Maud Adams. for instance, and Alice
Fischer and Henrietta Crosman
Each has a distinct charm Of manner,
a delightful personality, which makes them
popular with the theatre-going public:
but they do not take good likenesses. Their
vivaci'y is their chief charm, and vivacious
people seldom make statuesque pictures
4One OF the hardest actresses to pho-
tograph is Ellen Terry. She tries her
hardest to get into a Photographic mood,
but she is by nature restless. She does
not pose.
Il was sent to her apartments one time
to take special series Of photographs q
her for illustrating a story. ! would just
ge' her posed AT her desk and the picture
focused, when she would remember that
she wanted something from the next room.
and away she would dart. and all The work
had TO te done over again.
| she always was so sweotly romorseful
for her observation-disclosures and 80 willing
to try again that felt a. IL | were dealing
| with "A spelled child.
| Among my pleasant Photographic mem-
cries Is one connected with Mr. Mckinley.
When Mr. Mckinley was Governor Of Ohio,
and Columbus was their home, Mrs Mck,n-
ley was photographed in gallery-my
gallery for the fn't time in twent y-thres
years.
-She made business Of il. coming wit h
niece in attendance and remaining for
several hours. In her quiet. unobstrusivs
way, she showed Consideration for every
|
The easiest Photographic subject that
| ! av"r had was Gen. Horace Porter. .So' =
withstanding his enormous political and
financial interests, when no came tn nv
gallery he laid everything aside and placed
himself a. solutely IL the hands OF the opcr-
a;or, until tho latter had taken every style
and size OF picture desired And on Leaving
the studio he actually thanked me for my
klnCnnss.
Nothing ruins your pictures chance q
say that am getting my nerves in shape
for the holiday rush.
First, we will get the pictures Of tho
babies in the family, then the older children
will como in on Saturdays The college
girl IL have some photographs made for
her 81 ssrrates, and at the las, minute,
NJ IN nn" rush upon the scene, say about
! Dec. "a after having decided to send her
dear old friend in Oshkosh a Clristmas
surprise And she cooy expects the much-
tried photographer to have those pictures
In Oshkoth when the dear old friend opens
1 her Christmas packages the next morning