Join us and our partners at the Muskingum County Library System in reading Flashes of brilliance : the genius of early photography and how it transformed art, science and history by Anika Burgess and enjoy an exciting discussion led by MCLS Librarian Hailey Rantz.
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 were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.
This event takes at the ZMA in the Longaberger Art Research Library.
A limited number of copies are available to check out at the John McIntire Library. Also available to read for free on Hoopla using your MCLS library card.
Thursday, September 25, 6–7 pm, at the ZMA. Free and open to the public.
Register by September 25, 2024.
