WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. Flashes of brilliance: the genius of early photography and how it transformed art, science, and history

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Author:
Burgess, Anika
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"The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them."--Provided by publisher. 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 behind them...