PHOTOGRAPHS IN NEW POSES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14327, 12 April 1912, Page 10

PHOTOGRAPHS IN NEW POSES.

PICTURES TO MARK PROGRESS - IX SOCIAL CAREER.

The responsibilities of the phot-og ■_>.- phec- arc greater to-day than ever hefore, since many more pictures are made than in the past. There was a time when babies were taken to be photographed, and after this ceremony a long time generally elapsed betore they made another visit to the atelier. Usually this second photograph marked graduation from school or confirmation. Then there was often a long interval before the next picture.

The present situation of. the photographer is very different (says tho NewYork "Sun"). He is much more fortunate. There are pictures of such ..arly childhood that the baby is sometimes seen swinging in the scales on which he is weighed for the first time. Then every stage of progress up to school days is recorded by the camera.

After that follow photographs on every occasion that may possibly justify them. There are pictures of young women for the coming out after There havo been pictures to mark the close of every year at school. There aie ;..so pictures for every year of the social career before matrimony. After that there begins once more the reguhr round of visits to the studios for the beuefit of the second generation. Naturally so many visits create a demand for variety. Every picture cannot be taken in just the same way. However devoted the subject may "be to i he photographer, it is. not possible for any family to have its rooms filled tip .nth pictures that are not different in some

other,jJar t icular ihan , tho !lK)k - lho subject.

*? the photographers find it worth whilo to_ invent novelties in their pictures -n-hicjj may 'uip art t j lt . desired oifteronco to theni. One of the tthjsl popniai ot thtse has been the window pic-ture,.--which- has with various changes survived f or a i on , A time and is still popular because the wise photographers are constantly changing it in one uiiv or another. Recent pictures of voting girls-m society made by.a modish London photographer show them standing by a blooming rosebush. A New York photographer has adopted a dcoorati.-o device copied from a well-known portrait paiuter. He places on a tablo somewhere in the background or at the side of the figure a piece of antique porcelain, either a hawthorn jar or a Chinese ginger jar of some period. A western photographer poses his subjects against a half-open mirror door. The first American photographer to utilise the window picture ivas Charles H. Davis. He made many pictures iv this style without altogether exhausting its possibilities and then the English makers of pictures copied these window pictures as an American novelty.