It is difficult for a generation of people who have grown up with the camera, motion pictures and television to comprehend the real significance of photography’s impact on the society and culture of the last half of the nineteenth century.
Today, one can hardly pass a day without encountering great numbers of photographic images.
The camera designers and manufacturers were aware of the insatiable demands of amateur and professional photographers and responded with an incredible array of innovations to assuage them.
Daguerre and his contemporary inventors. Certainly , Eastman, Barnack and a host of others in the later development of the chemistry and optics of photography have provided man with tools of communication which challenge the camera collector.
