The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-12-01


dongs the papers had much to say. 1t n
enough that the newspapers should print cou
terfeit presentment of this or that public man
carefully posed bust portrait, touched up to show tt
subject he wanted to appear rather than
he actually did appear. Newspaper readers with
thirst for accurate information came to demand
pictures that would show the subjects as they
actually appeared. Moreover, they wanted not a
commonplace bust photo but full-length pic
ture that would represent it's object as he would
appear to one who met him on the street and
with a hint to his distinctive characteristics
as to dress, etc. From this demand born the
personal "snap shot"
Nowadays the snapshot is to large extent
dispacing the stereotyped visage in the public
prints. Almost everybody who achieves fame
or nOtOriety must must needs fall victims to the
sharpshOoers of the camera The snapshotter is
no respecter of persons or callings so long as hu-
man interest" is present, and everybody from
preachers to pugists and from statesmen to
suffragsts, is the quarry of the camera scout at
one time another. Some of the people who are
snap-shotted manifestly relish it; great number
accept it as a matter of course and a minority
wrggle and squirm and even fight at sight of
a camera. Conspicuous among the latter are
Harry Lehr, the Newport society pet of monkey
dinner fame, and j. Perpont Morgan, the fnan-
cier. 1t must be admitted that the father of
trusts does not make pretty picture when taken
unawares and he evidently realizes this for he is
usually guarded by several private detectives
WHen ne appears III pubic ana carries d Gale
which he is quick to any offending camera
that he can reach.
Public officials, headed by the president of the
United States, 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 leading statesman army
navy official who realizes that at public functions
he is liable to be continually in the camera eye
is likely to instinctvely avoid those awkward
attitudes and facial grimaces that sometimes spoil
things in the of a celebrity who is to
the game and self-conscious in consequence. From
the standpoint of the snap-shotters perhaps the
most satisfactory subjects in this country the
diplomats at Washington-that is, the alien Off
Gals who stationed at our seat of government
as the ambassadors ministers of foreign pow
ers For thing these titled foreigners
possessed of gorgeous uniforms that show up
we'll in unconventional pictures, and then again
they are accustomed to being constantly dress
parade.
The snap-shotter must "quck on the trigger"
and he cutivates ability in this direction almost
as earnestly the gun fighter of the west did
in the old days. The newspaper snapshots are
made by means of special cameras made specially
for the purpose, and costing as much $3.50
apiece. Only fraction Of second is required
of course, to make snapshot, once the lens is
focused upon celebrity in a desired position, but
the uncertainty lies in the fact that the celebrity
is seldom actually posing for his picture. More
than likely he may not realize that he Is being
caught by the camera or mayhap may be trying