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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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yas an art in which a machine doesall the work, that it is difficult to believethat some of the greatest portraits of ourtime have been produced by this medium.It is true, however, that the ideal require-ment of a portrait—to give a glimpse of amans soul—has never been more nearlysatisfied than by a few photographs madeseveral years ago in England by Mrs. JuliaCameron, and by a large number made inthe last few years in New York by Mr. G. C. Cox. Of Mrs. Camerons work thismagazine has already given its readerssome specimens.* The present article isdevoted to that of Mr. Cox. So quietly has Mr. Coxs work been donethat, except to a limited public particularlyinterested in purely artistic results, it isunfamiliar. He has never sought generalrecognition. Conscious that what he wasstriving to attain would be understood byonly a few men, he has worked tor them * McClures Magazine for December, 1893. Copyright, 1897, by the S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved. 56° A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER.
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WALT WHITMAN. G. C. Cox, Photographer. alone, seeking their criticisms and sugges-tions and observing closely the effect onthem of what he had done. To appreciate his method of work, oneshould have a sitting in his studio. Theexperience 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

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