New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

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made an effort to in
clude the print of the
Kaiser in his focus,
hut that the general circumvented and finally
placed the picture in his drawer
The official said he then asked Ludendorff,
to sell it. but an exorbtant sum was de-
manded. Later he relented, the generals
secretary visited him and the sale was made
for 100000 paper marks, S4700 at the
days rate of exchange. The official added
that the secretary later suffered a change of
heart and offered premium for the picture
saying he would have to commit suicide if he
lost it That, the official said, he did not take
seriously, so he explained that he already had
forwarded the print
Among those subjects always in season for
the camera men are prominent persons. some
OF whom are or have been very hard TO photo
graph. The late Z. H. Hartman was very
camera shy, until after the first photo of him
had been caught and published John D.
Rockefeller used to be, too. In the case of the
latter objection was overcome by A ship
news photographer, who hid on the steamer
until his brethren had made their vain at
tempts and departed. Then he appeared and
since has been less difficult to photograph
Miss Anne Morgan was most elusive until the
phllanthropic enterprises in which she was en-
gagged made her appreciate the publicity value
of her picture. The late J. Perpont Morgan
IS said to have been famed as a camera
smasher and his son is known to be averse
to posing.
Other game sought by the camera men are
society people, and there, too they sometimes
meet with reluctance In this photograph men
believe there is often certain amount of coy-
ness-that many social lights really want their
pictures used, although they won't admit it.
Sometimes appointments teephoned for
and pictures taken; at others the photogra pher
merely makes snapshot taking chance that
he has caught something worth while. The
good word Is "Shoot and ask their names
later. which used also to be the motto of some
of the famed gunhghters of the West.
Add to these targets of the news camera
men events of timeliness, sport pictures a few
scenic views, radio stuff-and girls; to be
more specific, pretty girls and girls with visi-
BILE legs. At these the lens and shutter of the
news camera stare and wink, for all the
world like the human eve
Have you noticed that nearly all the girls
whose pictures you see in the papers
pretty girls? To pass otherwise they must
have considerable fame, notoriety or short
skirts. Some of the fair sex are born good
picture material, some achieve that quality
and others go swimming or play tennis.
All hail the news photographer for the often
indispensable, resourceful sort of a person he
is He can and will Shoot anything on this
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take stock in the spirit and fairy photos Mil
lions are to look through the round eye of his
camera, he knows, and, in consequence there
is a sort of public-spirited urge that spurs him
on. along with the spirit of competition and
his personal ambition.
He slips through crowds like an eel If
the getting of picture is a veritable obstacle
race, he does not hesitate. If he can't see he
shinnies up statue or buys ladder, cost
what it may. He does not balk at dizzy
heights or precarous positions A riot may
not be safe for him, but neither is it safe from
his camera He takes his chances and he takes
his pictures, too. In this place that the
taking Of photographs may be forbidden, but
pictures appear just the same, pictures which
have been taken through hole punched in a,
hat concealing the camera or by camera held
carelessly under an arm or sung in its case,
apparently out of action. One need not look
to wartime for the epic of the news photog-
rapher; look no further than incidents in the
run of the days work
There was photographer aboard that fatal
day when dirigible crashed through the glass
dome of Chicago bank. Before he died he
asked earnestly if his negatives had been
saved. And the last act of knight of the
camera who went down with the Lusitania was
to entrust his roll of films to a friend he
thought had better chance Of getting
through.