Matthew Richard Isenburg

Matthew Isenburg died on November 14, 2016. Isenburg was a leading photography collector and historian. He collected cameras (with a major interest in Leicas), as well as early photographica, especially images from the first thirty years of photographic history. One of his major interests was the California Gold Rush, and he wrote about the history of photography and lectured extensively. His book with Charles Klamkin, Photographica: A Guide to the Value of Historic Cameras and Images (1978), chronicled the development of the camera. He founded the Daguerreian Society with John Wood and served as its president for many years. His prodigious collection was gifted to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015.