featuring entertaining personal stories alongside more than 500 full-color photographs
dreamily fondling his "male configurations"
and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with
SUVs alone now emit more carbon than the nations of Germany
the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History featuring entertaining personal stories alongsideToday 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