TY  - JOUR
T1  - Bones books & bell jars: Photographs of the mütter museum collection
AU  - Miksanek T
Y1  - 2012/11/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.308.19.2039
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2039
EP  - 2040
VL  - 308
IS  - 19
N2  - 
Bones Books & Bell Jars is a gorgeous photographic tour of the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia as well as a creative tour de force. The flavor of the book is reverential, historical, and on occasion a tad spooky. Think Twilight Zone meets Antiques Roadshow. The photography is imaginative. The use of only black-and-white photographs imparts a stark, retro look to the book. Yet mysteriously the work comes alive, more akin to a living documentary than a static collection of still life photographs. Some of the pictures are haunting—a wax model (moulage) of a child's face studded with molluscum contagiosum, a disarticulated fetal skeleton, and an anencephalic fetus, for example. 

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.308.19.2039
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.19.2039
ER  -