PHOTOGRAPHERS' BACKGROUNDS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 668, 13 May 1914, Page 7

PHOTOGRAPHERS' BACKGROUNDS.

♦- THE SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE

Pictures of an arbour, a hall porch a view of the sea, a lauEscape, and so on, are all noticeable as forming the backgrounds of the majority of photographs. In this particular matter of expense ihe better class ihotographers have spent considerable amounts solely to o'jta'n in:: best results. In this matter, as in most others, cheap substitutes can be got, these ranging from paper bask ground to very crude ones painted en canvas, but first-class photographers nowadays arc great sticklers for appropriate backgrounds. Often enough .eminent scenic artists are engaged to provide these, and great firms have hundreds of pounds' wo:th of different ones always ready. One or two of these paintings have cost as much as eighty or ninety pounds, along with the "propertits" —rustic tables, summer houses, an I all manner of movable accessory articles—appropriate to them ; but nowadays the expensive rule has obtained of having proper:y " builtup" background.';—that is to say, property cottage fronts with, balconies, half boats, half steps, and a ll manner of things, and I mysel)', says a reader, know a photographer who has a set that cost him nearly a hundred pounds.

The good-class photographer always sees that no background is. used too often, for Mrs. X., or Mrs. A., or the same circle in society, or even town, do not like to appear with exactly the same surroundings, an! this has brought about a most extensive system of exchange. The chief photagrapher in one tov.n will, after using a background for a white, exchange it temporarily for auothsr •which has been similarly u&cd elsewhere.

But in any case, even if proper ca"e be taken «n the matter, the item is in very expensive one to high class lihotographers, and both the scenic artists and the firms which supply these things are kept busily employed.—"Weekly Telegraph."