Show < STAKE YOU AS YOU ARE NOWADAYS Photographers Tell Subjects to Look Natural and Not Like Napoleon Photographers not say Look pleasant please any more Oho rejection re-jection of thai phrase which suggeSts yet lt ns It did when It was coined the photograpncrs gallery markn a small sliod revolution In the method of taking tak-ing pictures You can visit twelve gnllorioK I in Ch1 cayo aYid selecting the galleries at random mny have your picture taken In each of thci twelve and never once be admonished to screw your countenance counte-nance Into a semblance of onloynitiit whilu Ihe opuraior Knaps the pi = turj it I is unolhur of I ice customs that has i gone out vvhitMi used < < to he as lilatn tlvc of the gallery m the camera itself it-self selfA A study of photographs laken ten or fifteen years 150 when the artistic in I photography had not bcJrn developed to the point at which It In I present today shows that every one of the sitters might have boon called a victim with ruthfulncss The head was held hack is If It lulon id to a horse in whose mouth was a burr or attached to whose icck was a high check rein The hands vero folded ponderously or left to dangle dan-gle like horns Incased In canras and hung In ron t of tho L butchers 1 shop The fiot always gave the sitter trou Jlc lIe looked In his pictures as I If he had his feet on delicate eggshells or I ha I ho feared If he nuned them hvj would die The coat If the subject was IL man wus ether buttoned I I tightly and precisely or was recklessly thrown open to reveal the cxqulslle pattern of the waistcoat and UK tie On the face of each sitter was an expression that CAme as close as the photographer could get it to liiR expression Napoleon must have worn as he jvaincd the summIt sum-mIt of the Alps or that which graced 1 he classic features t of the first President Presi-dent as nn snow and ice he crossed the turbulent Delaware A touch of gra clousness xoflened the martial look as If the sitter who for all we know night have been engaged in as p < cic ful in occupation as keeping books or sell Jag ribbons were Indulging In the contemplation con-templation of his civic gigantic I prowess and brain power All that is gone now In only the mOL obscure shops In Chicago Chi-cago can a man ho photographed In an tttltude expressive of the strength and najcsty of the demigod Photographers of today say that It used to he necessary lo itiy Look lcnsain please because l the assump lon of the 1 attitudes suggested by the photograph man made it Impossible for the sitter to look pleasant unless he was ordered to do so That Is the raspwit in which the pho ographs of today differ distinctly from tho e of the past Then It I was all a ease of compulsion Now the sitter Is given credit for the possession of faculties facul-ties of his own an1 he is permitted to assume those posss that he likes well Tn the old 1 days the aim was to make most of the pictures alike That Is to have the same crencml I poses Tin actor and the writer had to he photo jrnphcU with his head In one of his hands or Intent upon the pages of a ook Some actors wanted to go down to posterity looking anxiously out of tho studio window as If seeking Ihe arrival rival of fame by a lettercarrier with money Authors thought tttat the casual observer ob-server of thclr counterfeit presentments I would not know they were rettl authors unless they were posed us if caught in the act with paper before I them and their pen pOi > d as if to write Lecturers Lec-turers were snapshotted or exposed to he time exposure holding a sheet of paper In tliolr hands this rarely beautiful beau-tiful pore giving the effect of a lec urer saying thirdly or fifthly When a young man and his sweetheart were taken it was against the rules for them to he any farther than half a foot from each other The younG mans hand must rest t on the young womans I shoulder and if I she be sitting she must look up Into his face with an expression expres-sion of Imefihblu trust and corJiacncc Ills shoulders must be swelled out as If he were able to defeat the honorable James Jeffries If he so desired Pictures III evenIns clothes were also correct The production of ono of them was conclusive con-clusive proof that t the sItter owned a suit of dress clothes and II was not so long ago tUial this evidence was a alga of great moral and mental ds wll as financial I prosperity Non all thai is gone The pho tographer seeks to secure only a life like picture of his patron He mnkes no requeft to hold th3 1 head up a lit tie higher or to look intently at the KIIJ i I hold In my hand All that ho tries to gel is a picture tlrnl expresses the Individuality I of the Killer and he puts no chains of i conventionality conven-tionality upon one who looks poorly in them The day of the armful of fllios has gone by That for a long time was a favorite pose A girl would hoI seen In a picture of course slandlm I 1t the < ylkfc fie ft Whom flnlrl IwMl o I her arms a bundle of Ilowers as If they grew mat Inside among tho wheat Plrturolakers who say that now there IK ns much art In a photograph poorly pored and properly taken as there 11 In an oil painting now refuse to let sit toms handicap themselves by gettllnjr Into positions that would be laughed at if assumed in real life Thlit has corns to bo i the test In Chi cago < < if a poso Is suggested that would create < < i0IrOel 1 hag cominnnt In the real world 1 he photographer unless lie Is taking n costume or a character plc tare rejects II jf a nail OI L oman want his or her picture talcen In street clothes the picture J man Insists thin he 01 she stand or J sit rua lie or she would Jf not III a studio There tire what uri known as draw ingroom plclurcs < < arid l strcel plc tines With them It Is not necessary lo say Look < < l pleasant t please Kath CI the t admonition of the present day hotographcr Is to Look natural please Among patrons of the gall erles these plctuics are the ones most In dcmand Every picture man would rather takei one of this sort than a pic ture that does not look characteriscfc of the sitter Among the other changes which have taken place In the course of photogra phy Is the decrease In the demand for babies l posed 113 cherubs This Is not done any more as IIIUCh as 1L 1 ascii to he As It to with adults It has come to he w1th babIes The thin SuWl b1blw timing that Is sought Is a characteristic picturenot a silted composition in which the baby garbed as an uncomfortable anqel Is jmide to suffer becauoe ils parents or the olosiiipher want a look pleas ant please picture The day of that picture Is dead Pho tosraphers hop that a will stay 30 Chicago Tribune |