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

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

dreamily fondling his "male configurations"

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the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation

and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with

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