Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28

great demand for shots" and a willingness
to pay more for them than almost any
other kind of Photographic hkenesses.
Circumventing the Camera Man.
To circumvent the snapshot man per-
sons will often go to ludicrous lengths.
Harry Lehr was once seated on a New
pointed at him. He promptly rolled
over on his back and stuck his feet
straight up In the air Mrs. Clarence
Mackey tried to double herself up behind
an open parasol. Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont
seized her BROAD hat by its brim and un-
tremendously yanked it down over her
face, doubtless spelling her couture and
loosing a few hairpins in the act.
But all is grist that gets on the plate of
the photographer who was thus tricked,
and one day he disposed of a batch of
photographs showing the various methods
resorted to by persons of prominence to
keep their faces out of the papers," He
was the first man to hit on picturing tbs
phase of snapshot photography, and, as
a result. he probably got more money out
of his spoiled shots than he would have
done had he succeeded in catching the sub
jects he had intended
1t is a peculiar fact that persons who
will consent willingly to pose for their
pictures raise strong objections to being
snapped. In a posed picture the subject
can generally place himself as he wants to
appear; in snap" he is taken just as he
is. Is the snap objected to because it
shows the subject as he really is-reyeais
him when eff his gnarf~-gets ar atte inner
man? e
Here is a case in point that answers the
question. partially, at least:
leading member of New York'S four
hundred, who has always handed out
studio portraits of herself with great lib-
crafty whenever she has had them taken.
learned that snapshot had been secured
l,o. she CYa fVrf., I,a,.
automobile at Newport Forthwith the
photographer who had done this thing was
summoned to the marble palace that she
called cottage He found the lady In a
decided state of trepldation; in fact, so
much so tina. when she asked what he in
tended doing with the photograph she dis
played none of that distant GOODNESS of
voice for which she is noted
why. intend selling 1t to the -" was
tho answer.
What" biurted out the social star "and
let all the world see how I look?"
The upshot of the interview was that she
paid the photographer literally for the sur
render of the negative which she doubtless
broke into smithereens as soon as 1t was
placed in her hands.
A studio portrait photographer Is always
willing to remedy physical defects to please
patrons. A snapshot Is not doctoredi 1t
is meant to be human document" The
lady in question has never been burdened
with avoirdupois in her studio-taken like
nesses. In the snapshot she would have
been advertised to the goSsipS as very
fieshy parsonage
The step that man who is now very
much in the news took in van TO keep
a snapshot of him from being published is
resorted to more frequently than would be
supposed. He called up the editor of the
publication in possession OF the shot al
first politely tried to exact a promise that
the shot would not be published, and.
this failing, threatened the editor and his
,.yif1, oil nrfc rfd f,.a her
asked why he objected to having the
shot published his reply was that he did
not want to go before the public In that
way.
Studio portraits of him had been pub
lished time after time without any OBJ
lection from him. Was his reply actuated
by motive similar to that which led the
society grande dame to buy the too true
likenesses of herself?
Here is an interesting problem for the
psychologist. Almost any snapshot can
furnish him with plethora of data
Breaking Cameras and Heads
The man who depends on snapshots for a
goodly share of his bread and butter must
always take into consideration that some
day he may return to his office with not
only broken camera, but broken head,
as well.
When the late Paul Leicester Ford the
novelist, was leaving the church after his
wedding, he saw photographer level
camera at him and his BRIDE, and he
promptly charged the camera and smashed
it. Harry Lehr made exhibition of him.
self at Newport. a summer or two ago,
when he turned on some camera men.
threatened to do a lot of smashing and
then passed on Still later he did get into
a runpus during which camera was
broken.
Never a summer passes without report
from Newport to the effect that some social
light has smashed threatened to smash
camera and its operator. The gossips are
fond of telling. with the necessary eclat.
how young Eatron, after finding herself
cernered by a half-dozen camera men. put
them to flight by charging down upon them
with her parassol held bayonet-wise. She
was given wide berth by the sfends'' for
the rest OF the summer.
Newport seems to be the hot weather
stamping ground OF large portion of the
professional and amateur snapshot deyo-
tees OF the land They swarm on every
side, and parsonage. man or woman, can
not leave the casino, or appear in the
streets, without being chased by swarm
OF picture-takers Two summers ago the
colony became SO annoyed by the continual
focusing and subsequent clicking OF shut
tiers that appeal was made to the town
authorities to keep cameras OF the streets.
Up to the time that he suddenly develop
Ell an apparent desire to please the news
ana picture gathering folk. John p. Rookie
feiier was by all odds the bane and despair
Of the professional snapshot fraternity J.
Pierpont Morgan and II. III. Rogers now
evenly divide this distinction so lately cast
aside by Mr.. Rockefeller.
II a publication were to ask me to take
an assignment to get good snapshot like
NESS of either Of these men, said snap
shot man, recently, I'D stde-step the as
signment unless life insurance policy
ssifhcient in value to cover the risk. went