This is the FOURTH part of an article from Popular Photography magazine
published in February 1944. More to come if you want to see it!
THE COMING WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Nine Outstanding Personalities in the Field Express
Their Views and Expectations of Postwar Photography
WILLARD D. MORGAN, ELLOT ELISOFON, BERNICE ABBOTT, C. B. NEBLETTE, PAUL STRAND,
L. MOHOLY-NAGY, H.A. SCHUMACHER, JOHN S. ROWAN, Sgt. ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN
in this segment: C. B. NEBLETTE, F.R.P.S., F.P.S..A.
THE WAR HAS greatly expanded the field of applied photography. We may look
forward to the widespread utilization of these applications by industry in the
postwar period and the development of many new branches of applied photography.
Integral tripack processes of color photography will supersede existing
processes both for negative making and for printing. Color photography will
become general, largely replacing black and white.
New lenses of simpler design and superior performance will be available through
the use of new glasses, plastics, and nonspherical surfaces.
Except for special purposes, the day of the 11x14, 8x10, and even the 5x7
negative is about over.
Despite almost phenomenal increases in film speeds in recent years, materials
of still higher speed are certain. Materials of finer grain are to be expected
also. Photography may turn from the silver halides to other photosensitive
substances, the diazo dyes for example.
Other predictions:
Amateur movies with sound at slight additional cost. Three-dimensional
photography in still and motion pictures available for all through new
processes.
Greater originality will be displayed in the designing of photographic
equipment, particularly in the professional field.
New, simplified, and cheaper processes will be available for the reproduction
of photographs by the printing press.
Newspapers will employ more pictures, less text. Wire methods of transmitting
and receiving pictures directly as a block ready for printing will enable the
smallest paper to obtain worldwide picture coverage of the news.
The use of the motion picture in education will advance by leaps and bounds. In
many cases training films will be the textbook.
The blank spaces on the map will be filled in by aerial photography.
Photography will be valued more and more as a historical record.
The inclusion of photography in the activities of the secondary school will
become general, not for the purpose of training photographers but as a means of
developing greater interest and understanding in other subjects.
The place of photography in modern life will finally be recognized by the
university, and courses on a par with those in other branches of science and in
the arts will be established.
FYI - In 1944 C.B. Neblette was the director of the Department of Photograhic
Technology at the Rochester Mechanics Institute and Atheneum and later became
the first Dean of the College of Graphic Arts and Photography at the Rochester
Institute of Technology)
next: PAUL STRAND
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