Show DOUBLE photographs the latest fad in the way of a un panted portrait it originated with the police too artistic to be limited to a Kog ties Gallery Precaution about madlne letters very few people know the origin of the latest wrinkle in photography remarked a leading photographer the other night to a chicago mail man what is the latest wrinkle why the double photograph of course theres Th ereis nothing really new about it for there are many years back of it but it seems tate a popular fad just now what is the double photograph Is it i a photograph of two persons or a composite affair it is neither it is a single photon graph showing two views of the same person a profile and a front view both taken by the same negative difficult oh no not at all it is a very simple matter the person to be photographed is placed beside a mirror and the camera records the image in the glass as well as the counterfeit presentment of the sitter in this way two views are obtained if the sitter is so placed as to secure a profile picture the image in the glass shows a front view and vice versa it is a pretty scheme and seems likely to become as popular as it is pretty but as I 1 remarked few people I 1 believe know where the double photograph originated it is a french idea and comes to us from the rogues gallery of the department of police of paris it is not always an easy matter to identify a person from a single photograph in the jail pictures are more or less unnatural the sitter often is made up for the occasion and his photograph does not show him as he appears in real life then too a profile picture gibee only a very misty notion of the actual front view appearance in real life and vice versa this point of view difference is greater than would be imagined by those who have not in J he subject I 1 have frequently show photographs of the same a profile arid a front view and those ipha have looked at them casually have sot discovered that they were not pictures of two individuals the paris police were first to simplify the matter of identification through the introduction of the double photograph but from an artistic standpoint their method is too valuable to be limited to the rogues gallery and it has already obtained a firm foothold throughout europe and has made its appearance here with a good mirror the reflection makes a fine clear cut photograph and its advantages are ob with a front view how can beauty show her coiffure or her arched eyebrows and f daintily curled bangs in a profile view any other new things well yes there is always something new crop ping out idour line of business but is rarely any thing in which the public is interested the fact is a great many things which you newspaper men say occur in photograph studios I 1 have neverseen atall for instance I 1 was surprised a few months ago to leam from the papers that high society young ladies were flocking into the studios and galleries to be photographed in tights and to have their feet and ankles their hands their arms necks and shoulders photographed for the benefit of their particularly exclusive circle of relatives or acquaintances perhaps that story was true was a canard but I 1 do say that I 1 dont believe a kontof it of course it is a common thing for a woman with whom nature has dealt kindly to modestly display her personal charms to the camera and I 1 think such a course entirely pardonable but J have never beard of such a wholesale anatomical exhibition of society and ends as the newspapers described i had an experience the other dav which has interested than any thin thing g of a similar nature which has happened me in au my business ex peri ence A young lady who moves in the best society bro ut me three and 1 photographed them for berandi at her request destroyed the negatives the letters were the most tender and ardent love missives imaginable they were addressed to the lady herself and were signed by a name which I 1 am sure you would recognize instantly yere I 1 to mention it I 1 will confess that curiosity got the better of my judgment and I 1 finally said ii pardon me but this iob IB a little unusual it Is it she said smilingly it strikes roo 80 I 1 replied 1 I don t see why you want photographs of those letters since you have the letters themselves dont you well I 1 do suppose the or burned or destroyed in some other way be de strayed as easily as the letters not especially if the tame lace do fl em bv eya ale 16 JW abo p propose to fako any chances in the breach business |