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Show War Boomed Photography. It was lnovltnhlo that tho war would produco some Industrial surprises and oddities; yet It will seem Btrango to tho man In tho street that one of tho trades which has prospered, especially on tho contlnont. Is that of photography. pho-tography. Putting press photography nslde, war docs not suggest Itself as a tlmo whon peoplo would want specially spe-cially to be photographed, and It Is true that a. good deal of tho work haa boon tho result of necessity. In the boglnnlng of the war, when overy household In western nnd mlddlo Europe Eu-rope was sending out some member. It was natural that thoso departing should, whon possible havo been photographed pho-tographed for tholr relations. When thoy wcro gono they demanded photographs pho-tographs of wives, children or sweet-heorts, sweet-heorts, so that thero woo a great trndo In tho manufacture of plcturo post cards to that end Then, whon tho trado might havo languished, tho pollco stopped In. Manchester Guardian. |