The Future of Photography as predicted in 1944

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In 1944 Nine Outstanding Personalities in the Field Express
Their Views and Expectations of Postwar Photography

The Future of Photography as predicted in 1944:

"ELIOT ELISOFON

I FEEL THAT the camera finds its main importance as a recording and communicating mechanism, and I should like to see it develop until it takes its place with the pencil and the typewriter as an instrument of our everyday language. Photography should be taught in the schools along with penmanship as part of postwar education's expansion.

It is possible to perfect the camera to the point where it will become an automatic instrument which will focus, expose and process the film by the mere push of a button. In this way we will be able to realize a medium possessing an immediacy between seeing and recording unachieved by any other art."