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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e is altogether unusual. Onedoes nothing as in the conventional studio.He is not posed. He is not bidden to lookat the upper right-hand corner of any-thing. He is not asked to smile. He isnot made to keep quiet while a watchticks out an interminable minute. As forthe camera, it seems hardly to come into theoperation. Probably many persons havehad a series of portraits taken by Mr. Cox who afterwards were unable to tell withoutan effort where the camera stood andhow it was operated. All this is naturalenough if one understands what the artistis trying to do. His treatment of a sitteris founded on his theory that all menpurposely or unwittingly wear a mask,and that unless this mask can be tornaway and the emotions allowed to chasefreely across the face, no characteristicpicture is possible. His first effort thenis to get rid of the non-committal mask;to make the subject forget himself, thecamera, his mission at the studio. An ordinary man could not do this, but A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER. 56i
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ELEANORA DUSE. G. C. Cox, Photographer. Mr. Cox is no ordinary man. He is origi-nal, sincere, witty, and in profound earnestover his work. The subject who comesto him prepared to pose is surprised to begreeted with what seems to be quite irrele-vant, though decidedly brilliant, talk. Mr.Cox has known many of the most interest-ing people of the last twenty years, andhas a great fund of unusual anecdotesabout them. When he begins to tellstories of Whitman and Beecher, of WilliamHunt and Richardson, of Amelie Rivesand Duse, it is only an unusually dull andpreoccupied mood which will prevent onefrom becoming interested. The quaintand original expressions; the unconven- tional opinions; the odd personal observa-tions; the contempt for shams, surprise andarouse the subject. Before he is aware he,too, is talking animatedly. Mr. Cox tellswith appreciation how Bishop Taylor, thegreat African missionary, came to himonce to be photographed. He was forsome time indifferent and dull, not under-sta

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