Word: psychographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that its lines paralleled the facts but called it a graphic misrepresentation...
...Author Cason was right about his countrymen's taste in reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph." Said he: "The Southerner reads the morning newspaper because he wants to know about the Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive...
...Lavery of Minneapolis contributed a "psychograph," a hemispherical metal framework which is fitted over the head. The head displaces a number of levers inside, and from the changed setting of the levers a character analysis can be read...
Matthew B. Brady, the distinguished photographer of the Civil War period, is the subject of a curious psychograph by the prolific Charles Flato. More arresting than the psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising...