This is a discussion on Portraits Capture Life In Dissecting Class within the General photography forums, part of the Photography & Fine art photography category; Was surfing through NPR website and came across this article and the radio program on a new book coming out ...
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Portraits Capture Life In Dissecting Class
Was surfing through NPR website and came across this article and the radio program on a new book coming out about Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 contains hundreds of pictures of medical students posing with the cadavers they were learning to dissect. Another interesting take on uses of photography over time.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...36&sc=fb&cc=fp
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How times have changed; students would be expelled and likely up on crimminal charges for doing that sort of thing today. Fascinating - thanks!
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They definitely had a sense of the macabre back then, what with the seances, Gothic novels, etc.
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