The Magic Box

Download or read book The Magic Box written by Claire Weissman Wilks and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hannah Maynard...established her own Photographic Gallery in the colonial town of Victoria, British Columbia, in the early 1860s... [Her] photographs, however, are interesting for more than historical reasons. She experimented with every new photographic technique and was not only in the vanguard of experimentalism, but she developed a vision that was surreal and unique, unmatched in its aesthetic inerest until the 1920s... When her work is combined with that of her husband's, as it is in this book, the result is a rare record of a time, a place, and a unique vision, the vision of a Canadian genius"--from front jacket flap.