The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1903, Page 9

™ (T IA 11) TogHl (GE \ Pty HUHIN I T (1100 91 PPRE 01 O Ay W il i i be a good idea and on t would save much time and worr, a list of “don’ts” could be conspicucusly posted in the dressing rooms of a I HAVE often thought it would gallery for the instruction of subjects while they are waiting for a “sitting.” firs t” in the art of posing m’t pose.” The next “Don’t overdress.” After plaster your hair down,” 1 the colors of the rain- ke posing hard work,” ook like some famous te *don’t be artificial.” rary, try to be as much like y self as you possibly can. uld the art of posing resolve down to a very simple task in- s just such artificialities as those enumerated above that make subjects awkward and unnatural, where they uid be guite at their ease. The e 2 posing is nothing more nor ucing graceful ecurving k on the picture of Miss ich accompanies this article t I mean. There are no hard that pose to affront the nds to bring out this 1did height and sym- Moreover, every curve serves accentuate her natural gracious- and half sad pensive moods. That t of bringing out all the ter of the subject. Add to this none of the detail of either ¥ ome coat or gown has been lost and you have the art of posing in its perfection, Indeed, I can't too strongly insist pon the importance of that one point. Curves, curves, curves. That should (i z |\ BY TERAELSON CHIES OPERATOR AT BUS, : . POSED BY / ALINE D CHIZDARRS (SECTION <& <& DECEAMBER - 13 - 19O be the photographer's watchword. No woman, be she ever so homely, but may be made at least passably attractive if all angles are avoided. And with the curves should go ani- mation wherever and wherever it is possible. Animation, even it it is only the merest suggestion of a smile, gives the impression of action. Moreover, it is friendly and will serve to attract at- tention from other defects if there are aBy- ‘However, subjects as handsome as Miss Dodge ar= extremély rare. To be- | 8in with slie is exceptionally tall, ex- tremely athletic and robust. That meant the danger of making her seem masculine 1f'she were posed at all an- gularly. Then there was the complica~ tion, of photographing masses of black and white at the same time—a difficulty which even the veriest amateur in pho- tography will readily understand, and which of itself, producicg as it does such sharp contrasts is likely to make ugly angles where least expected.” And then, too, very tall people all seem to be afrald of their height and unconm- sciously sag on one hip or the other when in repose in a vamn effort to seem shorter. This simple little mannerism alone would make the subject seem fat and shapeless were it not detected and corrected before the picture is taken. And thus by the avoidance of all these things Miss Dodge's superb height bas been brought out in such manner that she does not seem unnat- urally tall, so perfect are the curves and so patural the proportion. That same rule applies with equal force to every subject, short or tall, stout or thin. Miss Dodge, of course, has the advantage of being really hand- some and graceful to begin with.