The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
woMEN's WORK WITH CAMERA
A Profitable New Field--Many F'emi- nine Artists Building Up Paying Bus

embryo woman artist, the second-rate painter who has not found material rec oenition, and the amateur photographer of everything and everybody. Some of
 each of these have graduated into full fIedged professional photographers and,
 as such, are earning excellent Incomes. No more starving in dreary, cheap stu dios. waiting for an appreciative patron and prospective buyer.
 A number of young women of artistic temperament and training, who have
 not been fortunate enough to find a
 market for their work, nave come to
 realize the possibilities Of modern pho
 tography, and have devoted their ener-
 gies toward helping to elevate to It's | deserved place a vocation they would
 have scorned few years ago. It takes, | or should take, an artist to pose for
 photographs. and woman who has
 studied posing has a decided advantage i over A photographer who is mechanical
 and technical only The amateur pho
 tographers, who until short time ago 1 found their phot ographs a luxury, and
 matter of outlay only, have learned | the trade from commercial point Of
 view, and have turned it to account in 1 a most lucra tive manner.
 | Curiously enough some of the most successful women photographers in
 New York are from the south, with lit- 1 tie business or other training to fit them for such an up-todate enterprise
 yet they have made it go. One of these young women comes from Wash ington. another from Alabama, and l Nn1 s-n in n speciality and devote herself to it ex- clusively. One photographs only Wo-
 men and the other children. Still an i other young woman who has succeeded admirably takes" only men and boys. She insists that better. results can be secured by keeping along one line than by frequent changing. Sports athlet- ics horses, dogs, yachts--a'l the things that appeal to men-interest her, and she has proved the value of that sym pathetic attitude toward her model. A young woman in Gloucester Mass,
 married young artist who was eX- tremely poor, but whose work was good and gradually won recognition. Dur ing the days of his early struggles his
 wife. with the benefit of his advice and
 assistance turned her attention seri-
 ously to photography, with the result
 that she acquired a large studio of her
 own, and has come to be noted all about
 Boston and the nearby towns. It was
 her wits that taught the photographer
 of Gloucester the picturesque elements
 in the fishermen with their nets and
 sailboats In the old harbor. and her pho-
 tographic views along the Massachu-
 T e.o1A ol1 F t0l
 the east. Just @ little time ago wo-
 man photographer wasgquite unknown,
 and the first ones that hung ont their
 signs were not wholly trusted, the pref erence being for the precise and wholly reliable masculine artist with the cam era who held your head steady with an iron bracket and who fixed your hands and feet and chin at angles he consid- cred suitable. Each feminine candidate for public patronage was looked upon as necessarily trifer and was not talk en seriously. But perseverance and l1- tiustry have done in that line what they have done elsewhere and now women photographers are making their own terms with patrons.
 Among the new mystic school of pho tographers some of the most accom- plished are women, and two at least in New York have no rivals. They seem to get delicate personal note into photograph do these women, always a hint of something that Is characteristic of the subject, and their treatment is always more subtle than that of men. l In photographing women they sympa- thize with the vanity that wishes to be a itg hat 1yith hp off They understand every wo- mans desire for photograph that is yet a perfect likeness:" her wish to pose in som original way. and all the time the photographer is appre- ciative of the accompaniments. the frock, frills and draperies, that will make the best setting for the picture. That they should be able to find the happiest poses for children Is natural, and in that special line some of the most charming work seen has been done
 It has been claimed that women are to devote to new experiments the time and money that men do; that once they find the business of taking a remunerative one they ire so enamored with the pecuniary end that they greedily work for the in ,rease in income, with a diminishing interest in the artistic side. But this is luite the reverse among New York ar ists and photographers where women lave taken the initiative in new school york some of which is daring in the extreme, but only beautiful. One seri- us drawback to this interesting voca- ion for women is the amount of cani- al needed to start in the location and he manner necessary to success. This modern photography finds its clients in he choicest set of the fashionable world nd the young woman who seeks it's atronage must place herself in touch yith this circle and must be able to how her wares in becoming environ lent. All this takes money, rot a large um, yet any sum seems large to the verage student and young artist The furnishings and trappings of the studio eed not be expensive so long as they re artistic. Simplicity. extreme ef- aets, an air of individuality and even
 suggestion of Bohemianism attract ne women of mere conventional life 1ey of vain tastes and fat purses, who uy the wares and pay the rent of the rtistic and unusual voung photcgr9- her. To please one such is a great for the photograph will be and praised, and the subject ;1l oil bp,,