The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1901, Page 12

12 THE SUNDAY CALL. HE postograph feeds that eternal craving for something new in the way of pictures and admits of lim- itless possibilities In facts and beautiful coloring. startling ef- Posto-graph, that is. half poster and halr photograph, a photograph with the poster effect in design and colors. I was looking at some posters one day when the idea of poster-photograph came to me. I sald to myself, “Why couldn't a poster effect be made that would re- tain the likeness of the individual?” In the postograph we take the likeness directly from a photograph. The rest is done by the artist. I think the photographer, more than anybody else, feels the demand for nov- elty. Every once in a swhile he must come out with something entirely new, He must surprise and interest the public or else move his photograph gallery to a back street. ' The photographer must keep in'mind that his patrons are buying pictures of themselves. They see themselves every day in the glass, and when they buy a picture they want themselves presented in a new and attractive light. And for this the postograph offers an almost une- limited fleld. Great and wondrous have been the strides of photography in the last tem years, but these strides have been fromy & mechanical standpeint purely. h or a new mounting will ntirely new effect. For this the photographer has relied on the manufacturing firms. They send their paper men around with the latest novel- tles. They send their demonstrators, who show the photographer the wonderful ef- fects given by the platinum and the soft carbons. And close upon the heels of the paper man comes the mount man with ar- tistic mounts to match the new paper. So far everything has been done to help the photographer with his work and nothing has been left to him but the posing. In the postograph I think we have something new from an artistic stand- point. The photograph is enlarged and printed upon any paper that will take water col- ors. Then' the colorist's work com 1t is t work and he who would be a postographer must have the genius of a real artist, The whole idea must be in keeping with the subject. A new produce an The accessories must be m kecping with the main idea of the ortginal pLotograpt ricaturist brings out all that is 1S in a picture, so the postogFaph- d accentuate the ar- er must tistic points ted by the photo- graph. A Greclan pose suggests severe dra- peries and graceful lines—a luxuriant pose, rich backgrounds and royal purples, ete, The postographs are finished with deco- rative scroll work In gold and colors, F. H. BUSHNELL, According to the Japan Times a new is- land has been discovered in the Sea of Japan. From a statement appearing in the Nich! Nichi it appears that the island is situated at a point between Ul-Long- Do 1sland, off Korea, and the Oki archi- pelago, off the coasts of the San-in-do, the distance from elther side being thirty miles. No maps ever published contain any reference to the_island, which iy re- ported to be .about two miles in length and mbout the same In breadth. It wag about a year or two ago that the lslana\ was first discovered by a fisherman of Ky- ushu, who found the waters In its neigh- borhood full of sea horses.