The rise and fall of photography

This paved the way for a rapid ongoing development which

long precluded any backward glance. Thus it is that the historical or, if you

like, philosophical questions suggested by the rise and fall of photography

have gone unheeded for decades. And if they are beginning to enter into

consciousness today, there is a definite reason for it. The latest writings on

the subject point up the fact that the flowering of photography—the work

of Hill and Cameron, Hugo and Nadar—came in its first decade. 2 But this

was the decade which preceded its industrialization.