Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California

Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008), edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012), and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history.

"A substantial addition to our understanding of how a history of photography might be undertaken and articulated... Flash! leaves a bedazzlement of the senses and an inspiring model for those scholars about to delve into the many other histories of photography still waiting to be written." - Geoffrey Batchen, Source Magazine

"[A] rich and compelling cultural history of flash photography Flash! should reach a wide and appreciative audience." - Peter Buse, New Formations

"Offers an opportunity to reflect on the various changing meanings of flash photography." - Kitty Hauser, Apollo

"FLASH! is an engrossing book, full of strange nuggets of history, absorbing descriptions of photographic technology and gems of extraordinary people and events from early photographs to contemporary work. It is a well-supported and enjoyable cultural exploration; Flint's analysis is —appropriately—truly illuminating." - Patricia Baker-Cassidy, Photomonitor

"This cultural history of flash photography from the mid-19th century to the present day will have a special appeal for professional and amateur photographers." - Robert Tanitch, Mature Times

"... the book is a brave attempt to establish a specialised account of photographic history and, simultaneously, secure a place for the subject in modern culture at a time when electronic imaging is forcing new ways to undertake photography where the ambient light is non-existent." - Dr R M Callender, Photographica World

"The book offers an expanded way through which to navigate the many ways that flash has been used and to contemplate its place in the twenty-first century." - Fiontan Moran, The Burlington Magazine