McClure's magazine (1893) (14578148237)

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Identifier: mccluresmagazinev8mccl (find matches)
Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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feeling isbest conquered by taking the subject in hisown home or place of work. There henaturally wears a lighter mask and fallsmore readily into characteristic attitudes.Many of Mr. Coxs happiest results havebeen obtained by studying his subjects intheir own homes. Thus the fine portraitof Richardson was taken in the architects house. His recent experiences in photo-graphing Mr. Cleveland at the White Houseand Major McKinley at Canton, have beenequally convincing that if one wishes tomake a real portrait it is wiser to study thesubject where he is most at home. In taking photographs Mr. Cox aims tomake as many as six negatives. A com-plete series of his pictures runs the gamutof a mans soul from the moment of smil-ing ease to the one of anguish. Not thathe always succeeds in completing the se-ries; he rarely fails, however, to get sev-eral characteristic pictures. What couldbe more characteristic, fuller of sweetnessand truth than his portrait of W nitman ? A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER. 563
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G. C Cox, Photographer. WALTER SH1RLAVV. He has given us in it what must remainthe typical portrait of Whitman—a portraitwhich is the foundation of Johnsons greatetching, which George Barnard, the sculp-tor, declares has been his inspiration, andat the sight of which Duse cried out, whenit was shown to her, But it is his soul!Plow can one photograph a soul ? Jt is not to be supposed that all of Coxssitters yield themselves unresistingly to hisunusual procedure. Trained to pose to acamera, many are inclined to resent theartists effort to interest them and makethem forget the object of their visit. Thereare others who insist that, unless a faceis lighted in a certain way, the result cannot be satisfactory—slaves of a the-ory, they fail to see that this is a revo-lutionist regardless of conventions, whose the fine thins: he aim is to get onlysees. Another difficulty with which Mr. Coxstruggles is the almost universal notionthat a portrait should be something deco-rative. Many a woman

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