Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History and more--from an amazingly talented

and more--from an amazingly talented

and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted--but full of enormously rewarding moments

featuring entertaining personal stories alongside more than 500 full-color photographs

the kindness of others

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History and more--from an amazingly talentedToday 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 behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and