This is the FIFTH 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: PAUL STRAND THE QUESTION of what the future of photography will be in the postwar world is necessarily speculative as it is upon the winning of the war and the character of the peace that the future, not only of photography but of our very lives, depends. Perhaps we should rather be asking how photography can be more fully used in the war effort. It is, of course, playing a major role as an invaluable aid to the armed forces. Splendid and valuable too are the journalistic records being made at the fighting fronts and the home front. But the artists of photography are not being fully used, those whose ability it is to record, more deeply than journalism, this great life-and-death struggle for the victory of Freedom over fascist slavery. I believe that the victory over fascism and a people's peace cannot fail to bring with it an upsurge of democratic culture throughout the world. And in that culture, photography will surely play a role greater even than in the past, in science, in journalism, and as an important medium of artistic expression. next: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - prepared and posted on this list by ADavidhazy - andpph@rit.edu
