The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Mütter Museum
The historical bond between photographers and medicine carries forward to the present day an exhibition that presents more than a decade of work by sixteen contemporary fine-art photographers. Originally curated to coincide with the publication of Mütter Museum, this exhibition has traveled nationally since 2002 and now has come home for presentation for the first time in the Mütter Museum's own gallery. The works in this exhibition find beauty not in conventional forms, but in the internal marvels revealed in the Museum's specimens and medical models. The artists have been drawn to explore the enigma of the body, whether normal or deformed, broken, or disfigured, to create visual metaphors for the human condition.