Until the advent of the omnipresent little screens in everyone’s pocket, the way most viewers experienced professional photography was through books, magazines, posters, and other ink–based technologies. This presentation examines how that happened (it was neither quick nor simple), and will offer thoughts on how the consumption of images will continue to interact with how we make our photographs.

Stephen Greenberg, MSLS, PhD is an historian, rare book librarian, teacher, writer, and photographer originally from New York City, but for many years he was based in suburban Maryland. He recently retired after nearly thirty years with the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine at NIH, and continues to teach book history–related courses at the University of Maryland at College Park