“Schlosser’s book is a classic of art history: still a standard text for all students of the first great age of collecting

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Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Holiday Ornaments “Schlosser’s book is a classicThe story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them. Today its routine to take photos from an aeroplane 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