A Morning's Work OOP the mirrored surfaces of the

the mirrored surfaces of the daguerreotypes flicker before us

It is a contract of self-delusion

Kranitz has come to Appalachia to open up a new kind of narrative

inspired by a more innocent era

A Morning's Work OOP the mirrored surfaces of thePhotography and modern medicine were born about the same time. The presentation by Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre of the daguerreotype (1839), the first practical form of photography, came only seven years before the first public demonstration (at Harvard) of general anesthesia. The discovery of antisepsis by Lord Joseph Lister, which made safe surgery possible, came only decades later, in 1867. Thus, early photographers, many of whom were also