13 August, 2005
1944′s View Of The Future Of Photography
Here’s a fascinating article from Popular Photography in 1944: The Coming World of Photography.
Photography spent its first hundred years slowly developing its mechanics, its lenses, cameras, emulsions, and lights. But war speeded progress will place the camera in the forefront of man’s technical devices when victory comes. To determine the new uses, new methods, new viewpoints that will give camera work its direction in the postwar period, POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY has asked a trusted photographic editor, a war correspondent, documentary photographer; teachers of photography, manufacturers, and a soldier to contribute to this symposium. Their opinions differ. Yet somehow all seem to feel that the second hundred years will see the camera put to use as never before with the amateur often leading the way.
The nine luminaries featured in the article are:
- WILLARD D. MORGAN
- ELLOT ELISOFON
- BERNICE ABBOTT
- C. B. NEBLETTE
- PAUL STRAND
- L. MOHOLY-NAGY
- H.A. SCHUMACHER
- JOHN S. ROWAN
- Sgt. ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN
Hat tip to Holy Shmoly!
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