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Aug 2, 2020 · There is a century-old magic trick that Jim Steinmeyer finds particularly fascinating. It involves a burglar, a safe, and mind-reading, and it unfolds like this: A group of random audience...
Jim Steinmeyer has 40 books on Goodreads with 10895 ratings. Jim Steinmeyer’s most popular book is Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Imposs...
Oct 30, 2023 · WHAT WE HIDE: “WILL, THE WITCH AND THE WATCHMAN” FROM THE STALLS (PART ONE) October 30, 2023. Jim Steinmeyer. “Andre Malraux said, ‘You are not what you show; you are what you hide.’. This is a blog for magicians who regard the art of magic, and how its history is still an important element of that art.” —Jim.
Sep 15, 2004 · Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear: Steinmeyer, Jim: 9780786714018: Amazon.com: Books. Books. ›. Arts & Photography. ›. Performing Arts. Kindle. $11.99. Available instantly. Hardcover. from $12.89. $14.81. Mass Market Paperback. from $36.00. Other Used, New, Collectible from $2.44. Buy new: $14.81.
Jim Steinmeyer is the critically acclaimed author of The Glorious Deception, Charles Fort, and Hiding the Elephant, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. He is also a leading designer of magic illusion...
In this rich, vivid biography of the “greatest magician in the world,” celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public’s fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today.
10 years ago. eg. April 2011: Jim Steinmeyer discusses the history of magic, in particular a night in 1865 when the Great Sphinx of Giza was brought to London. The New York Times calls Steinmeyer the “celebrated invisible man - inventor, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter-century.”
