Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 309, 9 November 1920 — Page 28

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SCfrT-TELEGRAM, KICIIMOND, IND., TUESDAY, NOV. 9, 1920.

CHRISTMAS

HOTOGRAFH

Always a Welcome Gift Arrange for Your Sitting Now, to Avoid Disappointment Later

The Christmas Gift with the Personal Touch Your Photograph

Portraits Ordered Now Cheerfully Held for Christmas Delivery

PHOTOS

722 MAIN St RtQIMOrtatttfl

RUSH SEASON FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Is Already On in Richmond. Wise Patron Gets An Early Start.

Perhaps the most rushing of all businesses at this time of the year is the photography business. Vhotograpbe rs are becoming swamped with orders, and some are working day and night. The reason for this rush of business is obvious. It is the holiday season. As the years advance, the public is beginning to realize more and more, that one of the best Christmas gifts possible is a photograph. It is inexpensive as compared to other gifts, and yet it is something to be cherished.. Photographers are now busily engaged in making sittings and finishing up pictures. . Christmas for the photographer is like August for the Beaside boarding houses and hotels the amount of business is more than can comfortably be handled. Everybody is better off if the

season i3 started earlier and the patrons!

are gradually beginning to learn. Professional photographers have every prospect for their busiest year in history. Photography is a business of which everyone who knows enough to snap a camera shutter thinks he knows more or less. However, it is a business that is mastered only after years of arduous labor and study. Good pictures are not taken and made in a minute. They take time lots of it. Sometimes they require a dozen or more sittings, and then there are times when it would be better had the sitter and the photographer more time. Therefore the advice of the photographers" to do your photography shopping early, is both timely and wise. Every photographer specializes in some distinct branch of the work. Some devote more time to perfecting the likeness of the hair than others. In this eonnection one local photographer submits the following: "Nothing in photography is more capable of being artistically treated than the hair, and we have always noticed that there are less shortcomings in photographic art in this direction. Indeed we have fairly delighted our artistic perception in the contemplation of the studies made by the camera of beautifully disposed tresses which rival the production of Titian and the rest. In the rendition in the clear masses of shadow, the softness of highlights, the brilliant touches here and there, the innumerable gradations of tone, the show of the rich glossy surface, the delicacy of texture, the firmness of finish and especially, the beautiful lines and rich sinuous curves. No wonder the women prize this wonderful gift of the gods. The glory of a woman is, indeed;- in her hair, and she

knows it, and the portrait photographer j who neglects to study its means and ef-

feet misses the most potent artistic factor, the great accessory to expression. And yet we see portraits at times in which an envious looking flood of light has been allowed to obliterate the wealth of beauty so lavishly offered the artist."

HUMOROUS SIDE OF PHOTOGRAPHY It happened at a dinner in honor of a number of famous artists and photographers. The conversation turned to art. aid one of them: "The other day I painted a deal board in imitation of marble with such accuracy that on being thrown into the water it immediately sank to the bottom." "Faugh!" said another. "Yesterday I hung my thermometer on the easel supporting my picture of the north pole. It fell at once twenty degrees below the freezing point." "That's nothing." remarked an experienced photographer, "my photograph of a prominent millionaire was so lifelike that it had to be shaved twice a week."

She "Tell me in plain terms what you think of my picture." He "Madam, to speak cf your picture in plain terms is impossible."

The Camera Never Lies An editor received this letter from a fresh youth: "Kindly tell me why a girl always closes her eyes when a fellow kisses her." To which the editor replied: "If you will send us your photograph we may be able to tell you the reason." Puck

She Tock Them "I don't know whether I like these pictures or not," said the young woman. "They seem rather indistinct." "But you must remember, madam," skid the wily photographer, "that your face Is not at 'all plain." Boston Transcript.

Uncle William received several photographs recently from home; among the lot was one of three children, on the back of which was written: "These are not very good, but they are the best I have." Exchange.

Just Grievance He Why is Adeline so angry with the photogrnpher? She She found a label on the back of her picture saying, "The original of this picture is carefully preserved!" New York American.

Qualified "I'm going in for professional photography," said the former pugilist. "What line?". "Artistic portratiure." "But you are not an artist." "No, but I have touched up a number of faces in my day."

A Gift Suggestion

12 Portraits

of Yourself

A Seasonable Gift

for

Twelve of Your Friends

PARSONS -1L HOTOGRAPHER 704 Main Street

By Giving PHOTOGRAPH

for Xmas

"you can discharge all your obligations at comparatively low expense, without favoring one person or another; and still your gifts will have that personal touch that carries with it the real spirit of Christmas Day

Make arrangements TODAY for your sitting before the rush begins

CAIN'S STUDIO Colonial Building , Elevator Service

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