Gretchen Worden (1947–2004)
Auteur de The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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- Date de naissance
- 1947
- Date de décès
- 2004-08-02
- Sexe
- female
- Études
- Temple University
- Professions
- curatorial assistant
curator
museum director - Organisations
- Mütter Museum
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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- Popularité
- #124,308
- Évaluation
- 4.3
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This book was commissioned to highlight the museum’s collections. It’s a coffee table style publication in which photographers were invited to chronicle the displays each in their own style. They make the grotesque seem, if not exactly beautiful, aesthetic. The foreword gives the history of the museum’s founding and the stories behind some of its star exhibits, like Chang and Eng’s conjoined liver. It’s worthwhile to read for that alone.
My favorite pictures tended to be the most conventional, though I have a weakness for gelatin prints. My only criticism is that William Wegman’s Weirmaraner dogs, looking out dolefully between human bones, sort of broke the spell. The museum is a place of the dead, and though humor and social commentary can certainly be read into the history of medicine presented the decades, I’m not sure living creatures belong there.
If you can’t visit the museum in person, pay a visit to the Mutter website, where you can find rotating online exhibits and videos as well as an online gift shop where you can buy lovable stuffed versions of E. Coli, Malaria, and the HPV virus.… (plus d'informations)