Medical Analysis
Title
Medical Analysis
Description
This photograph is one of a series of large-scale still lifes that Fichter printed using the tonally rich Cibachrome process while in residence at Graphicstudio Institute for Research in Art at the University of South Florida. Taxidermy fish appear to spill out of the exposed torso of a medical model in a ghoulish inversion of the Biblical “Jonah and the whale” story. Emerging from the shadows of a fish’s mouth is the anatomical model’s face, half flesh and half bone, viscerally suggesting a human-animal hybrid that might be the result of mutated nature or an eco-disaster.
Creator
Robert W. Fichter
Date
1983
Identifier
Coll132-P059
Original Format
Silver dye-bleach print
Physical Dimensions
36 x 29 1/2 in.
Collection
Citation
Robert W. Fichter, “Medical Analysis,” Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, accessed March 28, 2024, https://umbcgallery.omeka.net/items/show/147.