National Museum of Medicine
October 3, 2010 § 1 Comment
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
The National Museum of Medicine was established as recently as 2001, with the first permanent exhibition opening in 2003. Although the exhibitions are very interesting, the museum still has some distance to cover to become a national museum. « Read the rest of this entry »
Medical Photos from Victorian Ireland
September 28, 2010 § 2 Comments
A collection of photographs of patients treated by Victorian surgeon Edward Stamer O’Grady is reproduced for the first time in the latest issue of the Scope medical magazine. See the photos, all from the vast Burns Archive and read the story behind them below.
The cover photo, with its creative use of a mirror to show the posterior view of the shoulder, is absolutely stunning!
Hat tip to Morbid Anatomy.
The Opposite of Fashion
September 20, 2010 § 2 Comments
Hidradenitis suppurativa of the axilla. Photo from bestpractice.bmj.com.
A career in fashion photography seems to be the dream of a lot of young photographers these days. In medical photography however, you won’t find much glamour or glitz, but a lot of real people with real problems. « Read the rest of this entry »
After the Curtain
September 7, 2010 § 7 Comments
Medical Photography Section , University of Oslo © All rights reserved.
This photo of an operating theatre at Rikshospitalet national hospital ca. 1900 is one of my absolute favorites from our archives. Even though the lights are out and the room empty, there’s an intense atmosphere to it. You can almost see the surgeons and the eager students. The light falling on the wall, the wet floor and the wheeled table that’s slightly out of balance with the rest of the room. Very dramatic.
Wish I had more details about it, but even the photographer is unknown.
Harvey Cushing’s Patients
August 26, 2010 § Leave a comment
Credit: The Harvey Cushing Brain Tumor Registry, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library.
Head over to the New York Times to see a selection of photos from the collection of almost 10,000 glass plate negatives of patients treated by Dr. Harvey Cushing between 1902 and 1933. « Read the rest of this entry »
Photo in Legion Magazine
July 15, 2010 § 1 Comment
Joseph Lister's carbolic spray. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
A few months ago I was contacted by Legion Magazine, a publication affiliated with the Royal Canadian Legion, regarding use of the above photo of Joseph Lister’s carbolic spray. A deal was struck and today I received a copy of the July/August issue in the mail.
The photo is part of a feature called “Then & Now”, detailing 100 years of medical advancement, from bandages and ambulances to antiseptics and scalpels. Read it online here.
Morbid Anatomy on Display
July 6, 2010 § 1 Comment
"Venus Endormie". Photo © Joanna Ebenstein
A selection of Joanna Ebenstein’s photos of medical museum artifacts are on display over at the American Medical News website.
Joanna is a graphic designer and photographer who runs the excellent blog Morbid Anatomy, where she explores the meeting of art and medicine.
For more of her work, including photos from several medical museums around the world, check out her online exhibition The Secret Museum and her morbid anatomy collections on Flickr.
Self-portrait
June 30, 2010 § 10 Comments
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
You may have noticed that I’ve changed the header image this week. In the old one I was holding a video camera, but as I do mostly still photography these days, I’m now sporting a DSLR.
Here’s my self-portrait in full color glory.
iPhone Photo Apps
June 21, 2010 § Leave a comment
Plastic Bullet for iPhone. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
There’s a lot of photo apps available for the iPhone. The best can squeeze amazing results out of the crappy camera. Here are my four favorites. « Read the rest of this entry »
3 Most Useful New Features in Photoshop CS5 & Lightroom 3
June 18, 2010 § Leave a comment
Photoshop ad by Bates141 Jakarta.
I’ve spent some time this week watching Adobe TV videos and trying out the new features in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Here are the 3 new features I found most useful in each program. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Sterile Eye 