Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1910-12-01
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ings all over the world it speedily progressed ITO
interest in places and things to curiosity regardll
the actual appearance of the people regarding who
.donaB de papers had much to say. 1t was n
CROUCH hRt the newspapers should print as cou
terfeit oil cntmeHst of this or that public man
carefully posed bust portrait, touched up to show
subject Is he wanted to appear rather than as
he actually did appear Newspaper readers with
a thirstkfor accurate information came to demand
pictures that would show the subjects as they
actualIy appeared Moreover, they wanted not a
commonplace bust photo but full-length pic
ture FIAT would represent its object as he would
appear to one who met him on the ST. : ct aid
with hint as to his distinctive characteristics
as to dress, etc. From this demand was born the
personal snap shot"
VI Nowadays the snapshot is to large extent
displacing the stereotyped visage in the public
prints. Almost everybody who achieves fame
or notoriety must must needs fall victims to the
sharpshooters of the camera The snap-shotVer 10
no respecter of persons or callngs SO long as hu-
interest" is present, and everybody rom
preachers to pugilists and from statesmen 10
suffragists is the quarry of the camera scout at
one time or another. Some Of the people who are
snap-shotted manifestly relish 1t; a great number
accept 1t as a matter of course and minority
wriggle and squirm and even fight at slght OF
a camera Conspicuous among the latter are
Harry Lehr, the Newport society pet OF monkey
dinner fame and J. Pierpont Morgan, the hnan-
trusts does not make pretty picture when taken
unawares and he evidently realizes this, for he Is
usually guarded by several private detectives
when he appears in public and carries a cane
which he is quick to any offending camera
that he can reach.
" Public officials, headed by the president OF the
United States are usually the most satisfactory
subjects for snapshots because, whatever may
be their natural inclination In the matter, they
quickly learn to submit gracefully to this sort
of attention. A leading statesman or army
navy official who realizes that at public functions
he is liable to be continually In the camera eye
is likely TO instinctively avoid those awkward
attitudes and facial grimaces that sometimes spoil
things In the case of a celebrity who is new to
the game and selfconscous in consequence From
the standpoint of the snapshotters perhaps the
most satisfactory subjects in this country the
diplomats at Washington-that is, the alien off,
Gals who are stationed at our seat Of government
as the ambassadors or ministers of foreign pow
ers. For one thing, these titled foreigners
possessed OF gorgeous uniforms that show up
well in unconventional pictures, and then again
\ they are accustomed to being constantly on dress
parade
= The snap-shotter must quick on the trigger"
\ he cultvates ability in this direction almost
Earnestly as the gun fighter Of the west did
nhe old days. The newspaper snapshots are
50 by means of special cameras made specially
ys- purpose, and costing as much as $3.50
ago, Only a fraction of second is required,
send byto make a snapshot, once the lens is
but all no a1celebrity in a desired position, but
more for Engies In the fact that the celebrity
done by hepy posing for his picture. More
Dr. Johnson ony not realize that he is being
sneeringly, that ira or mayhaD may be trying
vored of bullocks'