Quite an Art in Itself!. Source: Fun (13 November 1878): 196. Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the Princeton University library. Click on image to enlarge it.
What? “Don't think the machine rather suits you?” “Not a natural pose?” “Would rather sit easily in a chair, so!” Oh, my dear sir, most preposterous! Wouldn’t do at all! No art in it. Oh dear, you’ll excuse my laughing at the notion!
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- ““You will notice,” says the Photographic Artist, “the immense variety of the poses in my photographs.”
- “I place you first in my patent posing machine . . .”
- “By simply turning a handle or two”
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