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VKlIvKD WOMEN MODELS IN A WORLD-FAMOUS STUDIO 



It is "the thing" for foreign visitors to have their portraits taken beside the Sphinx ; 

 but few are the veiled women who have consented to being photographed there. Women 

 are, however, becoming more independent, even in the morning lands of history (see text, 

 page 101). 



magnanimous in letting me photograph 

 her after that. 



"i PRESS THE BUTTON ; YOU DO THE REST" 



Time and again I have had to show 

 illiterate people what the mysterious 

 black box really is. One man with whom 

 I traveled suggested that the unwashed 

 people who formed in line to look 

 through my graflex would probably 

 breathe a million different kinds of dis- 



ease germs into the hood of the machine, 

 and he pictured the possibility of my con- 

 tracting pink eye, diphtheria, and other 

 dread diseases as the result of my ex- 

 periment. 



But one can't get friendship without 

 giving it, and a portrait is not a mechan- 

 ical thing, but a collaboration between 

 subject and photographer. "I press the 

 button, but you do the rest" is one of the 

 slogans to be kept in mind when taking 



