Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-07-24
THE NEW ERA IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
Life-Iike Poses Now Preferred to Old
Fashioned Look-pleasant Type.

Fashioned Look-pleasant Type.
| Chicago Tribune.-Photogra do
not say Look pleasant, please any
more The rejection of that phrase,
which suggests yet, as it did when it
was coined, the photographer gallery,
marks a small-sized revolution in the
method of taking pictures. You can
visit IL galleries in Chicago, and Sc
lecting the galleries at random, may
have your picture taken in each OF the
II and never be admonished once to
screw your .countenance into a SEM
blance of enjoyme while the opera
tor snaps the picture. 1t is another
of the customs that has gone out.
which used to be as distinctive of the
gallery as the camera itself.
A study of photographs taken 10 or
| Is years ago, when the artistic in
| photography had not been developed
to the point at which it is present to-
day. shows that every one of the sitters
might have been called victim, with
! truthfulness. The head was held back
as If IL belonged to horse in whose
whose neck was high check rein
The hands were folded ponderously or
left to dangle like hams incased in
canvas and hung in front OF the
butchers shop. The feet always gave
the sitter trouble. He looked in his
picture as If he had his feet on delicate
eggshells or that he feared If he
moved them he would die. The coat,
IL the subject was a man. was either
buttoned tightly and precisely or was
recklessly thrown open to reveal the
exquisite pattern of the waistcoat and
the tie. On the face of each sitter was
an expression that came as close as
the photographer could get 1t to the
expression Napoleon must have worn
as he gained the summit of the Alps,
or that which graced the classic feat
ures OF the first president as In snow
} and ice he crossed the turbulent Della
} ware. A touch of graciousness soft
ened the martial look. as If the sitter,
who, for all we know, might have been
} engaged in as peaceful an occupation
} as, keeping books or selling ribbons.
were indulging in the contemplation
} of his own gigantic prowess and brain
: power
All that is gone now. In only the
J most obscure shops in Chicago can a
man be photographed in an attitude
/ expressive of the strength and majesty
of the demi-god. Photographers of to-
das say that ii used to be necessary
to say. Look pleasant. please" be-
cause the assumption of that attitude
suggested by the photograph man
} made IL impossible for the sitter To
look pleasant unless he was ordered
} to do so, That is the respect in which
the photographs of today differ from
those OF the past. Then il was all a
case of compulsion. Now the sitter is
given credit for the possession of facul.
Ties or his own, and he is permitted to
assume those poses that he likes well,
IN the old days the aim was to make
most of the pictures alike. that is. to
; nave the same general poses.
The actor and the writer had TO be
photographed with his head in one of
ms hands or intent upon the pages OF
hook. Some artist wanted to go
: down to posterity looking anxiously
out OF the studio window as if seeking
the arrival of fame or letter carrier
+ win money. Authors thought that
the casual observer of their counter.
, felt presentments would not know they
I were real authors unless they were
! posed as If caught in the act-with
4 the paper before them and their non
: poised as If to write, Lecturers were
snapshotted or exposed to the time OK.
posture holding sheet of paper in
their hands, this rarely beautiful nose
giving the effect of a lecturer saving
thirdly" or "ffthly."
When a young man and his sweet.
heart were taken it was against the
rules for them to be any farther thar
, half foot from each other. The younr
, mans hand must rest on the youns
: w1man's shoulder and If she be slttins
she must look up into his face with al
expression of ineffshle trust and con
, fidence. His shoulders must b,