Flashes of Brilliance
The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
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2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05110-7 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05110-7 (ISBN)
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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 under the sea, or gaze at an X-ray. But the innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were incredible and sometimes dangerous, and the innovators often memorable eccentrics. In this absorbing mix of science, art, and social history, Anika Burgess describes early aerial photography experiments with balloons, kites, and pigeons; reveals how photographers first captured the surface of the moon, the bottom of the sea, and the structure of snowflakes; recounts the race to photograph motion and how it led to moving pictures; and delves into photography’s social effects, including the use of the telephoto lens to surveil suffragists and of self-portraits by Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass to assert their autonomy. Richly illustrated and filled with fascinating tales, Flashes of Brilliance shows how the rise of a new art form transformed culture and our view of the world.
Today it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera under the sea, or gaze at an X-ray. But the innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were incredible and sometimes dangerous, and the innovators often memorable eccentrics. In this absorbing mix of science, art, and social history, Anika Burgess describes early aerial photography experiments with balloons, kites, and pigeons; reveals how photographers first captured the surface of the moon, the bottom of the sea, and the structure of snowflakes; recounts the race to photograph motion and how it led to moving pictures; and delves into photography’s social effects, including the use of the telephoto lens to surveil suffragists and of self-portraits by Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass to assert their autonomy. Richly illustrated and filled with fascinating tales, Flashes of Brilliance shows how the rise of a new art form transformed culture and our view of the world.
Anika Burgess is a freelance photo editor working regularly with the New York Times. Previously, Burgess worked as a visual editor at Atlas Obscura. She lives in New York.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.8.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 black-and-white and 25 color photos |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-05110-8 / 1324051108 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-05110-7 / 9781324051107 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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