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Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Rabbit Hole Books OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK •The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them. Today its 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