The Burns Archive recently released Sleeping Beauty III Memorial Photography: The Children. The release also coincides with an exhibition at The Merchant’s House Museum written up over at the New York Times.
One of my favorite blogs… Morbid Anatomy is an “eye opening look at the intersection of art, medicine, death and culture”.
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The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
My copy of Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 came in the mail today and it is fantastic. It spans personal interests from the macabre to scientific/medical research to post-mortem photography.
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history.
Published by Blast Books and available at Amazon now.
