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-f The Standard Magazine Section Ogden, Utah, November 1, 1913. III
Do you remember the picture of
( ncle John when ho was a baby?
His mouth Is twisted as though he
had no friends or relatives. His
head is held rigidly as though it
was resting against an Iron head
clasp to keep it steady while the
camera man caught him.
Ho also looked f Tightened Tak
ing pictures In the old days was
hard work. Even the grown folks
were exhausted by tho ordeal.
Grown folks placed it in the same
category as repairing teeth.
In fact, being photographed used
to be a good leal like having the
teeth Idled. In the first place the
adult person went to the camera
man and he would get down his
ledger and find when it would ho
a good llmo for you to come for a
f I sitting. He would enter your name
on the ledger in a vacant place and
tell you to come "Wednesday at 2
p m. If you didn't happen to have
another engagement at 2 p. m. Wed
nesday you would go. If you wero
late your turn would bo lost. You
would be like a freight train on a
single track railroad In that you
wouldn't havo any time. You would
have 10 wait on a switch every tirao
another train wanted to use tho
track and In cae somo other train
was late you might have a chance
to crowd in.
Oh. It was a bothersomo per
formance this business of having
your picture taken. You would put
all your best clothes In a suit caso
so you would not spoil them on the
way to the photographers Besides
you would want your picture taken
In evening dress and ou would not
wear evening dress on the streets
at 2 p. m. Wednesday.
When you reached the studio or
photograph gallery, or whatever
thi-y happened to call it in your
town, you would enter a little cur-curtalned-off
room and change your
clothes. Just as sure as you wore
living you would set your hair all
mussed up while changing.
If you happened to be a baby It
was all the worse. You would bo
lugged to the studio and bo carried
sideways and upside down while
mother was paying the conductor.
You would have to be crowded into
a ytrce-1 car or some other contrlv
ance you didn't want to ride in at
.-l) and when you reached the studio
to have a picture taken you didn't
I ' care anything about what they
would expect you to sit up and face
. j! tho camera Just as though you liked
III It.
Hard to ftet
liaby to Laupli.
j "Baby must laugh." mother would
ay. "Mamma wants baby's picture
when he laughs."
rf. But baby didn't want to laugh.
In fact baby had cone to sleep
coming downtown and had to bo
. g aroused so the camera man could
&f get a shot at him. It made him
nfci mad to be waked up, and he set up
II a howl. After the howl ho would
not laugh. The camera man tried
(fl to make baby laugh by shaking a
rubber elephant, but the baby was
hil not even Interested. After every
body was tired out they took a pic
ture without baby laughing and tho
result caused mamma, papa, gnmd
tljl papa, auntie, uncle, grandma, and
all the intimate friends of the baby
. to hunt another photographer.
"Ho never gets any 11 fo In his
pictures," was the verdict. "Ho
made baby look like a dead man."
But now tho camera man comes
. . Into your home and snaps you at
work. He gets baby in tho nur
sery whou hm is laughing at a crack
in the floor and he gets grandma
when she Is knitting socks and both
look as natural as can he. The
idea of taking pictures in the home
was born with the invention of the
cheap little camera which anybody
could touch off and get a picture
The work of the amateurs was
crude as compared with the pro
fessional picture man but the a ma
teur got life. He got tho baby
right after he had watched brother
Tom spin his top and bal's face
was animated With happiness He
got everybody about the houso
when they were doing natural
tilings and when the did not know
thc were being taken. He got
"sis" .vhen she was all dressed up
for the dinner party and "sis"
looked better In the little camera
picture than she did when taken In
all her swell clothes at the studio.
It soon became noised about that
brother Bill with his r, by 4 camera
which he could make and sell for
10 cents apiece and still have
money left v .is a better photog
rapher than the highest priced art
ist in the city. Then the profession
al photographer became endowed
with wisdom.
lMiotopraplirr Now Gets
Baby in All Poses.
"I'll take your pictures in your
home," he said.
The result is that the pictures of
babies taken today are not tho pe
culiar things of a few ars ago.
Babies instead of looking like
judges and priests because of their
soberness, look like babies. The
professional photographer knows
so many moro things about photog
raphy that with tho tamo condi
tions he far outshines the amateur.
Besides he has better instruments
for taking picture. He gets baby
as In ...is -ots lil tii when he plays,
at
gets him when cries and gels him
when he sleeps.
A baby taken at home Is as much
or more unlike a baby In a studio
as a deer In a forest is unlike a
deer in a circus. When the patents
are ready to have tho baby's Ptc"
ture taken they telephone for tho
camera man, He enters the home
like a visitor, pets his camera ready,
and when the baby looks pleasant
the picture Is snapped without tho
SCHWEIG ART NOUVEAU
baby knowing anything about It,
Like the pictures taken by the
amateur, the photograph Is natural.
The baby looks jke he does around
home because he Is taken at home
and doing the things he Is accus
tomed to J".
It's Just tho same with the grown
ups of the home. Taking pictures
at home is a great boon for tho
brides The cajAera man comes to
the home the day of the wedding
the same as the guests.
Aft-r the bride is dressed for the
occasion or after the ceremony the
camera man is on hand and takes
her In all her beauty. Or If the
people wish he can take her with all
the guests or take her with the
bridal party-
The rc;ult is about 100 per cent
better than the picture taken days
after the wedding w hen tho bi Ido
goes to the studio and has her pho
tograph snapped In her bridal gown.
The bride never looks the same
when she makes up for the picture
She is always more like a bride the
day she becomes a bride Pictures
taken before or after are not the
best. Besides the picture taken right
at the wedding Is so much more
natural
Some people become so self-conscious
when their photographs are
being t iken that It M impos-lblo to
gel a natural portrait except when
they are taken-unawares. There was
a noted philosopher whose picture
was sought by newspapers and
magazines, but he refuted to sit for
a picture because he always looked
so unnatural.
At Ia3t his wife solved the prob
lem for him- She made the ac
quaintance of a photographer and
on a pre'.xt Invited him to their
home for dinner. The photographer
did not talk about pictures He
talked philOCphy, or rather he drew
orlte book was open before him. It
was a perfect pi' lure They had
tried "o take his picture before In
a- studio. As ho entered he. was
told
"Sit down, raise your chin, look
llko a philosopher, put your book
on your knee like you do naturally.
Look pleasant."
The result was the philosopher
looked like a street speaking aglta
; r with a grouch. He couldn't look
natural when he tried to do so. The
only way he . ould do It was to be
caught off guard. After he had been
snapped in his study the photogra
pher s.nd
"You can destroy this if you don't
like it."
The philosopher liked It Since
then when ho wants a picture of
himself he sends for his wife. Tak
ing pictures in the home started
with the Kngllsh. Only In recent
years has It become a great fad in
America. Now everybody wants his
picture laken m the home.
It requires a much more skilled
artist to do photography at home
than in a studio. When you go to
tho studio it Is up to you to look
right. The photographer makes you
come to his requirements. There hs
his host Into talk aoout philosophy
When th- man's face became ani
mated and he was full of his subject
the photographer snapped him with
his camera.
The philosopher was taken sitt'ng
in his favorite chair at his favorite
desk. He had one of his favorite
books on his knee and another tav-
has the test light, and if you will sit
on his chair and ral.se vo ir - hln In a
manner foreign tb your nature and
bow your back the way he wishes
you to do he will take you In the
home he has to study you Hi also
has i.. BlUdj the light conditions
and til'- furniture conditions.
He has to seo a picture In nls
mind and de.'.de how his subject H
Will look n ilii3 and that part of tho j H
room. He has to think 'inb kly so jVm H
as to make his work appear little H
like photography in order to gain :
naturalness. ?1F H
Photography Is one of the re- H
markable inventions of modern .Jt H
times. So accustomed has the pros- -dJ H
ont generation become 10 the use of USf
t u camera that little thought is
.taken of the remarkable discovery j jjt
which enables a man to reproduce ; wl IJ
an exact likeness of another person itj!
or thing. At first only one print jafl
rould hr. til. en This earl kind of
a photograph, known as a dnguer- , Ujt fl
r.eorynr from Ihc Inventor Haguerre. nu
printed the picture In negative. A Mil
man's right side became his left in jjjt
the picture the same as in a mirror.
General Grant, who had a wart on jj WM
his right chf.k, h.d a Daglierrao-
type taken and the wart appeared jWi
on hie ii't i h 'k
Later photography was so highly M
developed that a plate could be 'if
made and the pictures could be Iff
printed from the plate and wer TjE j H
printed positively so a man's right Jjjf H
side remained where it belong?. -Wi H
Photography has been of ;;reat ' H
use to science. The camera does 4jt H
not He unless some action Is taken ! uc
to distort the picture A phoiograph JW H
of a document Is as good evidence H
In court that the document existed H
as the document itself. Photographs H
of fortifications are often sought by Iffi H
a hostile army, as they will show the TO V
etrength of the defenses. 'jjli I
In the study of astronomy tho Je H
cainera has come to thr front exten- ,mt H
slvely In recent years. The camera jm
can take pictures of stars In broad III H
daylight when the human eyo can gU H
not see tho stars. It can take pic- ijTO fm
tures of the heavens accurately ; flffl U
when the human eye would make a Jlefl I
mistake. If there Is some unusual jjfi
ph oomenbn goli In thi sin M
camera can keep a record of the W
phenomenon where it can be studied j U
by a microscope on the photo- Bf )
graphic plate. 'iSjj H
Among the most startling won- jjt" B
dcra pi photograph is the taking of I
,n photograph by use of X-rays
w h. -:a"
pressed on toe p; e I J
A camera is made like the human flr H
eyf Thi Interior la colored black ; jjji H
like the eye. eoces ail the S
light admitted through the lens ind
to reflect none. heT -perture in jjPJJ
front of the lens is like the pupil M
of the eye. It opens to admit tho
light Just as the pupil of the eye il fl
opens .'f ttS own ;i ord to admit
light. The k-ns of the eye focuses ;fl H
the light on the retina where the ,JB
lmase is formed just as in the cam- wk fl
era the Image falls on the photo- W jM
graphic plate. 9 H
The lens In the camera focuses jH. fH
the llgh' on th. plate also jH jM
qlOUdy d : 111" ;'U; I of the I ye en-
largea t" admit more light. Just so .ll j
phptpgi ipher has to -p.. n the
LpU" o the ...uiuia to admit more
It was by study of the eye that the jBt
inventor of the camera perfected his j(f
Instrument. The plate on which the m.
image is preserved, however, was jH
made through a study of :hemlstry. JH
I I lie 1 I' I"- .t jH
-'ne. the HI
camera jd.ite retains the Image. H ,
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