The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-01-03
SOME EXPENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS
Likenesses at $1,000 Apiece the Latest
Thing.

Likonohbon NJ VI ,0OO apiece the Latest
Thing.
Time was, aud not 81 many years ago
when ordering cabinet photographs al sl0
ol 80 dozen was regarded ~ enough oi
luxury To cause one 10 count over and
over again the friends that really must be
favored, while imperials costing twice a-
much were the height Of extravaganza. To.
day a photographer la. just perfected a
camera whereby he is prepared To take
likenesses al sly1 piece. These photo
graphs are liiesize prints. To make these
photographs the photographer has built a
ever Tor such a purpose. II is really an
entire room, the black walls, ceiling and
iioor OF which correspond TO the cloth
thrown over the ordinary apparatus.
Within this room camera the operator
can walk about and accomplish wonders
hitherto impossible 10 him.
Impressive as a thousand.dollar photo.
graph sounds II " not 80 extrayagant in
one way rs il seems. The other day
man dropped into the same studio and
seeing framed and hanging on the wall a
replica of a photograph of himself for
which he had paid 500 for a single print,
remarked; Il would rather have that
photograph AT the cost OF an oil painting
Of myself than an oil painting at the cost
OF the photograph" In other words, he
and his family had got more satisfaction
out OF an expenditure Of $500 than II he
had paid a portrait painter the $500 or
50 that his means could as conveniently
have afforded. VIVA, is true of the 500
photograph Is correspOndingly true Of the
sl0O0 photograph. for in the latter case
the dimensions are brought up to the -ize
of the conventional painted portrait.
While the sl00O photograph discounts
the future bit, the slOO article is already |
out of the class OF rarities. The finest |
made at this price, each, are carbon prints |
on canvas. An indescribable softness is
by this canvas. the texture of |
general effect IL that of a painting in
monotone, rich brown in countless shad-
ing that blend into perfect whole.
Such a photograph should. of course. be
absolutely permanent. The same photo
graph IN a carbon print on Japan paper
costs $50. The size is % by 30 inches.
The photographs costing from $50 apiece
upward are fulfilling a distinct mission in
post mortem way. For instance, the
ionor of building OF real service to a
died within the past year, and
he thought naturally came to the family
hat the mans portrait should hang on
ne walls VI lHt WIN
bundant means at the family's command
he first impulse, if this had happened
few years earlier, would have been to
a portrait painter TO do his
,est with a photograph and the sugges-
ions OF wife and children TO guide him.
instead the order was given TO photog-
apher TO do his best to the tune of 500
the fixed price, not the limit, since more
fould have gladly been paid had it been
ecessary.
The usual painted portrait is always a
ubject of criticism. There are no two +,
pinions in the case OF the photograph !
n this instance an enlargement had to be .
lade, but it was an enlargement of many !,
gradual perfectng OF plate d
rom which the final print was made
Again, the costly photograph is taking
he place of the printed portrait for the
dornment of club houses and the head :,
uarters of many organizations where il !,
customary to use series of the presi- y
ents, etc. But after all the chief mission y
the high.priced photograph in the
orld where money is no object is as
special gift in the intimacy OF the fam b
v circle. liz
The wife with fat purse surprises her I
usband. who may have been brought up e.
a tintypes, with 500 photograph of
arself, i their child, or perhaps the two
,gether. The price is paid without .,
urmur and on top of that $50 or more is a. .,
id ont on frame What does it mat n
r, the cost, ~ long as the husband is 4
easedy |.
As for the wife she will be so happy .
Ter il that she is likely TO accompany IA
e check in settlement of the bill with a /
,te OF such appreciation as to make the
feel that he has done real
vor. One photographer is so accustomed
receiving these notes of thanks as to
perience sense of loss when they are
It forthcoming and says frankly that
ey often mean more to him than the
oney; for to the artist appreciation is
e next thing to the staff of life.
As for photographs at 800 dozen
quisite platinum prints llXl4 inches.
large mounts that fold once-they are
t merely an extravaganza of the rich,
t the moderately well to do are in
lying in them. Fancy photographer
tting an order for $500 worth OF work
I'm one young matron Yet neither the
stomer nor the photographer thought
ything of it. This was not for couple
high-priced prints. but for a miscellan- Us
Us lot of photographs, sittings of her
f and her children d.
Men pay 500 dozen for photographs n
tie as readily as women. Photographs 4,
s45 a dozen and $50 dozen have be-
ire a mere commonplace of extravaganza
4 are only luxury to people of mod -
tie means.-New York Sun. a..