Very little information about the practice of painting (as opposed to tinting; there is a difference) photography has been available. This book covers incredible ground, pulling together material from advertisements, photography texts, archives and collections in order to present an overview of the climate, practice, and production of painted photography. Most other material extant focuses on individual artists who happened to overpaint their photographs, or of particular artworks which are photographs that have been painted on. Henisch shows the existence of a trend in early photography which seems to have been relegated to the sidelines as an analomy or as an isolated practice.
This is an incredible work, well - written, and evocative of Henisch's broad scope of scholarship.

The book is a good starting-point for everyone interested in crystal growing in inorganic silicate gels. Although it is limited to sodiummetasilicate-gels (more or less ignoring any other gelling media), it provides the reader with very useful hints and applications of this special crystal growing technique. Starting with the basics of the method, the reader is introduced to the mechnanism and "background" of the chemical and physical properties of the gels as well as the crystals grown in such gels. I found this book very useful in the first part of my Ph.D. project, because I don't know any other publication providing details about this technique.