Cook, George S. Photographer... Under Fire: The Story of George S. Cook by Jack C. Ramsey, Jr. Signed Copy demonstrating how high-speed photography permanently

demonstrating how high-speed photography permanently changed our understanding of animal and human mechanics

Newhall charts this trajectory from the hand-tinted plates of the 19th century and the painterly Autochrome prints of the early 1900s to the bold

but essential witnesses to a world on the brink of modern transformation

In the context of 1976

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Cook, George S. Photographer... Under Fire: The Story of George S. Cook by Jack C. Ramsey, Jr. Signed Copy demonstrating how high-speed photography permanentlyHistorical Resources Press, 1994. Limited edition; Copy #717 of 1,000. Double signed and inscribed to Gerry. Based during the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina, Cook has been called, The Mathew Brady of the South." Fine hardcover with dust jacket. Note: On February 23, 1819, George S. Cook was born in Stratford, Connecticut. Orphaned as an infant, Cook was brought up by his maternal grandmother in Newark, New Jersey. Beginning at age 14, he