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    Stephen Leacock went to a photography studio to have his portrait taken. The photographer was unhappy with Leacock's face and asked him to contort it in various ways to achieve a more flattering look. When shown the final photo, Leacock did not recognize himself as the photographer had altered his features too much. Dissatisfied that the photo no longer resembled his natural appearance, Leacock declined to purchase it.

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    A humorous short story by Stephen Lea cock

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    WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER

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    Stephen Leacock went to a photography studio to have his portrait taken. The photographer was unhappy with Leacock's face and asked him to contort it in various ways to achieve a more flattering look. When shown the final photo, Leacock did not recognize himself as the photographer had altered his features too much. Dissatisfied that the photo no longer resembled his natural appearance, Leacock declined to purchase it.

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    With The Photographer

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    Stephen Leacock went to a photography studio to have his portrait taken. The photographer was unhappy with Leacock's face and asked him to contort it in various ways to achieve a more flattering look. When shown the final photo, Leacock did not recognize himself as the photographer had altered his features too much. Dissatisfied that the photo no longer resembled his natural appearance, Leacock declined to purchase it.

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    WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHER- 

    STEPHEN LEACOCK

    Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) is a modern English prose writer. He is known for


    his subtle humour in his writings. With The Photographer is a short prose that
    describes the Leacock’s experience with a photographer.

    One day Leacock went to a studio to take his photograph. The photographer
    looked at him without enthusiasm. He made the author to wait for an hour. Then
    he took him into the inner room to take photo. He placed a machine in front of
    the author. The photographer was not happy about the author’s face. He said
    that the author’s face was quite wrong. The author accepted it. The photographer
    added that it would look better if it was three quarters full.

    Then he asked the author to open his mouth and to close it. He felt that the
    author’s ears were bad so he asked him to drop them a little more. He asked
    Leacock to roll his eyes under the eyelids, to put the hands on knees, to turn the
    face little upward, to expand the lungs, to bend the neck. By all means he wanted
    the best feature and expression of the author.

    When the photographer comments that he didn’t like the author’s face. Leacock
    couldn’t bear the insult. His face was his own only. He had lived with it for forty
    years and he knew its faults. When the author started to rise from the seat in
    anger, the photographer took his photograph. He told the author to come on
    Saturday to see the proof it.

    On Saturday, the author went back to the studio to get his photograph .The
    photographer showed his photo. The author was not able to identify his own
    image in the photo. The photographer made so many changes in his eyes,
    eyebrow, mouth etc. The photograph didn’t look like the author’s photo at all.

    The author wanted a photograph that would have looked like himself. He wanted
    something that would show his face as God gave it to him. He wanted something
    that his friends might have kept after his death. But what the author wanted was
    no longer done. In end the Leacock walked out of the studio without accepting
    the photo. The story tells about the depersonalising dimension of science.

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