The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-10-03
Photographing the Great
Photographers in Washington Always Alert to Snap
Prominent Personalities and Big Events.

though motion pictures had been IN
vented by McKinley's time, and the
movie camera was turned upon him.
But the photographing of news, as
we now know it, began during Roose-
velt's administration, when Barney
Clinedinst, a Washington photograph
er, imported from Germany camera
with a shutter so rapid that it would
stop upon the Photographic plate the
swiftest kinds of action. No man was
more respective to new ideas than
Roosevelt; and when ClinedinSt told
Roosevelt about the new camera, the
President invited the photographer to
test the new instrument by taking
some snapshots of T. R. on horsebaC'.
The famous photograph of Roosevelt
vaulting a five-bar fence on a horse
was the result of that first appoint
ment-a photograph that is said to
have made Cinedinst over $4,000. Il
was the forerunner of the modern ac-
tion picture Of public men.
Roosevelt was the best of all presi
Dental subjects for the camera. He
was a man of striking actions, and he
was that most excellent of all posers,
the man who can be utterly himself
in front of the. cameras eye. But T. R.
had something more: he could sit in 4
studio and register a portrait that fair
ly glowed with his own personality
Other public men can get this result
occasionally, and then they secure
what they cherish as their best pic
lures; but Roosevelt had the facility
all the time.
1t was legendary the number OF
times President Roosevelt was photo
graphed, but the cameras have clicked
even more industriously in the vicinity
of his successors. That is because
of the increasing public demand for
/ pictures and the increasing number
of cameras to supply the demand. Mr.
/ Taft did not seem to lend himself well
to photography pictures were al:
much alke-but Mr. Wilson came in
/ to be another good subject and was
/ often photographed until his illness
after his return from the peace con-
/ ference. Since then pictures of Mr..
/ Wilson have been extremely hard to
/ get. Mrs. Wilson was photographed
less than any modern mistress of the
( White House.
Harding Much
/ photographed.
Mr.. Harding is an exceptionally good
subject for the photographer He
poses we'll, as if conscious of the lens,
and gets a great deal of personality
into the pictures. Since his nomina
ton for the Presidency two years ago
he has probably been the most photo.
graphed man in the world. Harris
& Ewing alone have a thousand pic
lures of him.
1t becomes evident from what has
been said of the taking of the Roose-
welt horseback picture that these snap.
shots of the great in action, pictures
that seem casual and accidental. are
in reality staged and arranged affairs
And so they are-most of them. Not
long ago there was published a photo
graph of President Harding playing
golf on the public links in Washington
one morning before most folks had
eaten their breakfasts. The unsophis
ticated must have wondered how the
photographer, too. happened to be
there at that early hour He didn't
happen to be there-it was arranged
in advance. Each day the presidents
schedule for next day is given out tt
the correspondents at the White
House. If any of these activities lend
themselves to news pictures, the pho
tographers arrange to be there Now
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