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Show iTHE CAMERA TRICKS OF VENUS. "Yes, but the photograph flatters her." You have heard it often haven't you? Probably said it yourself at times. And yet, have you ever stopped stop-ped to consider just how and why the photograph in question did flatter flat-ter her, how that flattery was made possible; and hew it was accomplished accomplish-ed ' photographic flattery is not ac cldental. as any honest photographer will assure you. It is the result of enlisting the services of Venus by means of various little tricks with the carneia and its adjunct. There Is a photographer in New York who has had much photographic success with full length portraits of ungainly women This nhotographer poses women frequently beside a garden gar-den fence but not, as those who havL. Keen tho photographs in question think the same fence. The facts of the case are these: The photographer, photograph-er, keenly aware of the faults in the shortness or length of his subjects' waistlines or the awkward length of their arms and similar physical de feds that are hostile to the code of Venus, had six fences made, each being be-ing of a different height. In posing women, subsequently, he used that height of fence that would deceive the eye that saw the finished photograph-If photograph-If the subject, for example, had a particularly short waist, the artist of the camera would pose her beside one of the fences the hekht of which would make her waistline seem b ng-er. ng-er. And when three different photographs photo-graphs of three diffeient subjects were subsequently put on view In the exhibit case, the beholder would not believe that the posing had been done with different optical-illusion backgrounds back-grounds Ge'orge Jean Nathan, In Harper's Weekly, |