Judge — June 19, 1920 — page 27: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page features **Dorothy Dickinson**, a performer being photographed by photographer George M. Kesslery. The caption humorously suggests Kesslery makes her look like one of Henner's famous red-haired canvas heroines—referencing **Jean-Jacques Henner**, a 19th-century French painter known for romanticized portraits of women with distinctive red hair. The joke is that Kesslery does far more than simply operate the camera; he manipulates the image to make his subject resemble classical painted beauties. This satirizes the emerging practice of **photographic retouching and artistic enhancement**—photographers positioning themselves as artists who "create" rather than merely document. The lower portrait appears to show an unnamed male figure, likely another entertainment industry figure from the silent film era.