This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare photographs. Stanley B. Burns, MD, has studied, collected and written on medical photography for over four decades focusing on unexplored areas. His books have placed him in the forefront of medical photographic history scholarship. This work reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the dead body and body parts. The classic visual iconography of postmortem, dissection, and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy images and X-ray studies. No prior visual work has presented the once very popular hobby of collecting skulls and also shown their use in racial and psychological profiling research. This sumptuously illustrated book with previously unpublished photographs is an extraordinary work of medical, historical and cultural research. It is a timeless visual essay that will surely become a standard resource for collectors, curators, artists, and scholars.

Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism

Arts & Photography

Stanley B. Burns

Elizabeth A. Burns

Photography & Video

Schiffer

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth, with dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Joel-Peter Witkin. Captions and Afterword by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. Unpaginated. 40 four-color plates on uncoated paper. Selection of photographs from the "Burns Archive," which contains over 700,000 vintage prints including the world's largest collection of early medical photographs. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. This first edition was limited to 3000 hardbound copies.

Masterpieces of Medical Photography: Selections from the Burns Archive

Joel-Peter Witkin

History

Twelvetrees Press

Dr. Stanley B. Burns and the Burns Archive played a large role in the rediscovery of the normalcy of postmortem photography. In 1990, the landmark publication, Sleeping Beauty, Memorial in Photography in America, ushered in a new era of appreciation of the importance of these images. Postmortem photography is the taking of a photograph of a deceased loved one, and was a normal part of American and European culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has nothing to do with images of violence, crime, or war. Death, and personally dealing with death, was prevalent throughout the entire world as epidemics would come quickly and kill quickly. Advances in medicine removed unexpected death from everyday life and professionals took over. Commissioned by grieving families, postmortem photographs not only helped in the grieving process, but often represented the only visual remembrance of the deceased and were among a family's most precious possessions. Mourning periods were bas

Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

Twelvetrees Pr

, pages unnumbered, this edition limited to 5,000 copies, illustrated in black and white throughout, complete

Harms Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem : A Book of Photographs

Twin Palms Pub

Reprints articles in facsimile that Burns wrote for the New York State Journal of Medicine on the history of early medical photography. 142 pages; 150 photographs, 16 illustrations from photographs; 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Index.

Early Medical Photography In America, 1839-1883

The Burns Archive

Oncology: Tumors & Treatment, a Photographic History The Anesthesia Era 1845-1875. Selections From the Burns Archive

Medical Books

Medicine

Burns Archive Press, The

Oncology: Tumors & Treatment, a Photographic History The Antiseptic Era (1845-1945)

Photographic History of Nineteenth Century Dermatology - The Face

Burns Archive Press

Photography was the key that enabled dermatologists to unlock the secrets of skin disease. This is the first photographic historical work to document the histroy of dermatology during its evolution into the modern specialty. Invented in 1830, it was available as this specialty was developing. This compilation of photographs showcases the patients whom nineteenth century dermatologists encountered while categorizint and naming skin diseases. Because dermatology is the most visual of the clinical specialties, acute observation was often the key to diagnosis.This is an edition limited to 5000 copies

Photographic History of Nineteenth Century Dermatology: The Back

Photographic History of Early Podiatry: Selections From the Burns Archive

Allied Health Professions

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