Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1911 — POSE WHILE ASLEEP [ARTICLE]

POSE WHILE ASLEEP

English Society Adopts Fad Started by Austrians. Latest Craze Is Being Photographed While Asleep—ldea Comes Prom * Austria, Where It Is Already Very Popular. London. —The latest society erase Is being photographed while asleep. The Idea comes from Austria, where It is already very popular, but It has spread to London, and Inquiries may show that photographers bare begun to follow the fashion or are prepared to do so. One well-known woman professional photographer recently caused s small sensation by an exquisite picture of a group of sleeping children whjjch she took, and other specialists In portrait work are endeavoring to. emulate her. not only in pictures of sleeping children, but in pictures of oblivious grown-ups \ . Discussing the subject. Mr. George Henry, the well-known portrait painter, said he could not understand why anyone whoee waking expression is pleasant should want to be photographed asleep. “Still, there are some people whose faces look better tn repose.” he agreed. “There la no expression to be obtained from the eyes of s slefblng person, of course, but there may he something undesirable banished from the face. "Many people go through life.with a net wiyiinliiii n "purposeful mask’

—on their faces, but when asleep they forget that set expression and you catch them as they really are. “The chief difficulty in getting a sleeping photograph is, I Imagine that no one—or few people—can go to sleep at wilL They may close their eyes and pretend to be asleep, but that does not give them a natural sleeping look." ”1 do not say that you Will get true likeness of a person when asleep, but you will certainly get a very In terestlng one,” said a well-known sculptor. “The comparison between a ‘waking* qnd' sleeping portrait of the same Individual should* be very Interesting, “The stress of modem life and conditions generally Use and mark people’s faces, but sleep blots out much of this facial disfigurement, and that is one great reason why women especially should go la for sleep photography. Children, too—although not, of course, for the same reason—ought to be ready and beautiful subjects.”