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.