Judge — July 1936 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Judge's Camera Contest This page presents humorous photographs supposedly submitted to Judge magazine's camera contest, mocking their quality and subjects. The top left shows "Professor Thorndyke" demonstrating a microscope—likely satirizing scientific pomposity. Below, a rotund man in formal wear represents a failed flashlight photo contestant, captioned as capturing "one of the scarecrows in his closet." The right side features two circular photos: one shows a woman labeled as a "P-tracks refusing to give swimming lessons to charming Betty Copperhead on the grounds that he taught her to swim only last summer"—a joke about infidelity or scandal. The satire targets both amateur photographers' poor submissions and contemporary social figures, using exaggerated caricature to mock vanity, pretension, and scandalous behavior among the wealthy or prominent.