The Mutter Museum

The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Hardcover – October 7, 2002

Author: Visit Amazon's Gretchen Worden Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0922233241 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia – October 7, 2002
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Gretchen Worden is the Director of the Mutter Museum. The subject of a recent documentary, Smiling in a Jar, by Errol Morris, she is also past president of the Museum Council of Philadelphia and serves on the executive board of the Society of Civil War Surgeons.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Blast Books; 1 edition (October 7, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0922233241
ISBN-13: 978-0922233243
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This beautifully designed, researched and photographed monograph is one of the most interesting journeys you'll likely encounter in the volumes of art and photography books. Though not well known to the regular museum-visiting public, the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is a richly rewarding sanctuary for the many forms of medical aberrations that have been collected since the museum's founding in 1858. Housed in this museum are over 20,000 specimens, photographs, paintings and molds of patients and organs and remnants of the lives of people born with deformities, better described as variations from the norm. It is much to the credit of director Gretchen Worden that she not only preserved this fine collection, but that she had the foresight to invite many of our finest photographers to enter this domain of the bizarre and create formal portraits of the materials there contained.

Devotees of medical history, as well as those fascinated by the people from the past who made their living as part of 'freak side shows' in a time less compassionate than now, will find in this book some of the best renderings of nature's spectrum of anomalies. Add to this plethora of model material the genius of such photographers as Joel Peter Witkin and the result is a collection of photographs so bizarre they defy credibility. But real they are, and each specimen is presented with dignity and quality of format. There are even descriptions of the etiology of some of the photographed abnormalites and a fine essay by Gretchen Worden, explaining the purpose of the museum, the monograph and the stimulus for the production of this fine body of photographs.