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Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History

By Anika Burgess
Hardcover
$35.00
By Anika Burgess
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year


The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors ...

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