IT SEEMED a simple enough assignment – to research the history of digital photography. As a journalist, the subject is close to my heart. The camera is as much a tool of my trade as the personal computer, the telephone and the reporter’s notebook. I have always had a passion for photography, and I assumed that others would be sufficiently enthralled by the camera’s extraordinary recent metamorphosis to write it all down.
I was wrong. The history of digital photography, one of the most remarkable technological developments in living memory, is rapidly being forgotten and nobody seems to care. This is…
