Demand for Models in Art Photography
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yips FLORENCE NESBIT, A TOUTHFUIj MODEL WITH A PERFECT PROFILE. A CHILD MODEL WHO KNOWS HIS BUSINESS.
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MISS ROY CILMORE. A MODEL OF NATIONAL FAME. WHO IS POSING FOR SEV
ERAL STATUES FOR THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR.
MISS ELSIH FERGUSON, A NOTED NEW YORK MODEL. POSED AS A WEALTHY
SOCIETY LEADER.
(Copyright. 1303, by Allen V. GUlesplel)
ID WIN A. ABBEY, the American
P I artist who Is painting the cor-
onsiioa picture, was unc utea
by au almlrer what was the
hardest part of his art.
"To secure beautiful women as models,"
was the reply.
Like Mr. Abbey, mho voiced the uni
versal sentiment among painters, the
photographer whose sole business is to
supply the ever-increasing demands of illus
trated publications and advertisement
builders with likenesses of beautiful
women, has to search far and wide and
long for suitable subjects.
The quest after modern Helens leads tha
beauty photographers to do strange things.
Ono man, after hunting for two months
to secure the right sort of beauty for an
advertisement for a champagne bouse, hung
out cu his showcase a glaring sign, which
read: "Beautiful women will be paid lib
erally for posing for "photographs."
Tho result was, according to the photog
rapher, that every woman who passed by
read the sign and then bolted upstairs
into the studio. For two weeks his place
was overrun with women who believed
that they were dreams of loveliness and
were Indignant and called the photographer
a "mean, horrid brute" when he politely
intimated that their stylo of beauty was
not suited to the work In hand.
It was on the morning of the day that
the photographer, In despair, bad decided
to give up the quest for the golden girl
that a petite, sparkling-eyed, chestnut
haired, roey-cheeked and vivacious girl of
about 17 summers tripped gracefully up to
the photographer and lisped in a frightened
Bort of way: "Maybe Pd do?"
(Continued oa Paso Thirteen.)