PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 3

PICTURESQUE PHOTOGRAPHS

1 The winter''time,'.the;season' of ! pretty cvenJ ing frocks, is pre-eminently tlic time a igirl' should ' ehoo'se: for , her ' oho'tograplv taken; However nice she may lfiok'iu a plain blousi, and' skirt, or ' .walking costume, the' graceful lines: of an evening i'rock-will' make her look 'more charming still. And it I 'is- not merely^tho-.-gracefulness of .the evening style that makes' for, but ,ihe' ; . sheen': and shimmer of;:-silk, the" filminecs 'of' morfe delicate fabrics,. the . exquisite designs 'of lace, and'the soft shadows of the draperies that' icome.' -beautifully- in- f <i ■ 'really good' photograph.' Looking over those ■ chambers'of horrors,; old .family albums, • ope- foqls that-, the primitive :-art''of photography, .known to those ■pays. deserved little,bete.'than,the .ugly stiff had'to work but the. art. in!its ' progress 'ihas ' niore' ' than', kept .' pace .with - the; art - of .'dress',,;'and : ' to-day delightful ' pictures can be' produced' for those 1 who will pay;the price. Berhaps'-nothing better has been .done in New. Zealand than the "India., proof," portraits :which. Mr.-' Bartlett 'carries, out'in tiro platinum process,' unless it' be the evSn ; more 'delicate' silverpoint pictures which have ■! all the charm of silverpoint etchings.'- These givo 'full effect' to the ..beauty , of shimmering 'evening., fabrics, r . and make of each ;portfait a work of art, •