Flashes of Brilliance
The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Seiten
2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05110-7 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-05110-7 (ISBN)
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 photo editor and writer whose work has been published in the New York Times and Atlas Obscura. She lives in New York.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 black-and-white and 25 color photos |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 589 g |
| 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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