The author
of the essay “with the photographer “ leacock
visits a studio to get his photograph. He explained about his purpose to
the photographer. Photographer tells him to sit and wait for sometime. The
writer waits there for about an hour. Then the photographer opens the inner
room door and asked him to come in. The author goes into the studio
accordingly, and sits down on his instruction. There is insufficient light
and air there. The photographer rolls a
machine into the middle of room and moves slowly behind it. Then he tells him
that his (author’s)face is quits wrong. He points out defects in author’s head eyes and some other limbs. The author tells that
he knows well of his face which is not beautiful. But it is his own face and
not of somebody else. He has lived with the same face or past forty years and
he knows its defects and shortcomings. Any way he takes his snaps in the last.
When the writer asks to show his photographs, he immediately says that he
cannot show it unless the negative is not developed. So he should come again on
Saturday. The author comes to see the proof on Saturday. becomes surprised to
notice that the picture does not look like his own figure. The author the
author becomes annoyed and ask the reason behind it. The photographer gives his
clarification relation to the author’s reluctance adding that he has retouched
the picture in order to make it looking better.
The author
loses his temper. He says scornfully
that he has come to get a true and natural copy of his face, to keep as a
memoir after his death. He feels that he is badly mistaken or cheated. Out of
frustration he tells the photographer to keep (retain)the photograph and its
negative with him use all sorts of chemicals, make as many changes as he likes
in its figures. He becomes restless and tears roll down from his eyes. He
leaves the place desperately.
The
photographer does not seem to be social and submissive. The peculiarities which
he has shown with the narrator dealing with the narrator dealing with him are
as hereunder-
(1)
Does
not attentively deals with (2)asks him to wait and thenafter takes an hour initially for
obtaining his photographs. (3)takers him inside the studio and tells to sit
before the camera. (4)points out numbers of defects in his facial appearance.
(5) makes a number of changes in eyes, brows and even in author’s face and
removes the ears of the author in the photo, turning the face into totally
different from his original face,
Thus, by his funny acts, the whole story becomes humerous,
which is explained by the narrator
in a satirical manner. He becomes fed-up by the behaviour of the photographer.