Too Much Enterprise.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1910, Page 4

Too Much Enterprise.

OF INTEREST TO PHOTOGRAPHERS.

The enterprise of the nfca'spapen photographer has been arousing some indignation in London of late. The development of highly efficient cameras, so small that they may he concealed easily in a pocket, has ma.de it "possible lor men to secure photographs of all sorts of odioials and private events. Til id illustrated newspapers have been able to publish a picture of the confirmation of the Prince ol "Wales in, St. George's Chnpcl at the very moment of the solemn rite of .the laying on of hands. A few months ago the consecration of a bishop by the Aruhbisliop of Canterbury was pictured in the newspapers, and of interesting proceedings in the law courts are becoming increasingly common. Another pliaso of the business was displayed in the course of an action brought against a firm of Tress photographers in London last month. A number of illustrated journals published a picture purporting to represent the body of the late King lying in state. As a mattor of fact it was a photograph of the preparations at Westmiustei Hall for the reception of the bod.v of Mr W. E. Gladstone in 1808. The defendants explained that they happened to have "in stock" a photograph of Mr Gladstone's lying-in-state. and when arrangements wore being made in connection with the death of King Edward tliev sent copies round to the illustrated "newspapers without comment. The fir in evidently had a shrewd idea of the use that would be made of the twelveyear old picture, but it secured a favourable, verdict from a jury when one of the newspapers asked foi damages 011 the ground of fraud. The same newspaper complained that it had been deceived by anothei linn of photographers in connection with an alleged picture of M. Jacques de Lexseps landing at Dover after flying across the English Channel. A phohograph had been taken of a small group of men engaged in waving their hats and an aeroplane had 'been introduced by methods well known to photographers. The public must not believe all that it sees in the illustrated newspapers.