Medical Analysis

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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.

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