"But in the domain of photography the amount of 'horse-power running to waste' is appalling – and all for lack of a little system and co-ordination. Shall this be allowed to continue? Shall the product of countless cameras be in the future, as in the past (and in large measure today), a mass of comparative lumber, losing its interest even for its owners, and of no public usefulness whatever? This is a question of urgency. Every year of inaction means an increase of this wastage."
– H. Gower, L. Jast and W. Topley (The Camera as Historian, 1916)
