ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author urges young women to rise above the commercialisation and standardisation in photographic portraiture which she saw as endemic. The number of women who since that date have taken up this work in all its branches goes far to justify his remark. To speak of London photography is not a very encouraging thing. The whole profession is now undermined by the reprehensible and regrettable custom of ‘Invitation sittings.’ There is far more opening for enterprise in the provinces and in new and growing suburbs, where children form the staple work, and have the very common habit of coming back annually to be photographed. Very often girls pay no fee, but receive 2/6 a week ‘pocket money,’ which may rise to 6/- a week towards the end of their training, the employers only engaging those who can live at home with their parents, and dispensing with their services at the end of their apprenticeship.
