THE GIRL AND HER CAMERA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2769, 12 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE GIRL AND HER CAMERA.

As ingenious gill lias hit on an ingenious means of self support. With a clever little d-teotive camera she used to amuse herself whenever her fancy led her about the city, picking up here an old apple woman, there a ragged newsgirl, yonder a group of babies tumbling on the grass in the park, and somewhere else an Indian women witli a huge bundle balanced on her head—all full of artistic possibilities. Though the girl could neither paint nor draw, she knew what would compose well. Many of her photographs were really pictures, aud, being caught instantaneously, preserved all the spirit, action, and freshness of life. An artist friend saw them one day and, to her surprise, offered to buy half a dozen of the best for suggestions for studio work. The girl was in want of money and resolved to turn what had been play into work. Now she and her camera are out every bright day from 10 o'clock till 3, anrl an hour in a dark room of an evening bring out some of the characteristic scenes of city life tranferred to her negatives and ready to be transformed into cash. Her work is quite the fashion among the studios, and clever suggestions are often taken from it. An attitude, a smile, an expression often serves as a revelation of some queer phase of humanity, and supplies the missing something that somebody wanted to incorporate into a picturc. Sometimes an artist gives her a commission, naming the subject he is at work upon, and asking her to bring in all the hints upon it that she can find.— New York Commercial Ad%>ertiser.