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The Bassett Collection
Ok, so this is I guess the part where I wonder what kind of audience I’m writing for here. Many of you, will already know about this one, but for those of you that don’t, let me introduce you to the Bassett collection. I first stumbled upon these works through my school. My first class with cadavers prompted a near instant interest in cadaver photography in me. I’m still not sure whether the recommendation was meant to inspire me, or to show me that it had already been done and done well (there are a lot of both legal and ethical issues involved in cadaver photography), but I was told about some truly great work.
Beautifully lit, so clear, and at times haunting, this collection has to be the greatest of it’s kind out there. The shots are actually taken in 3-D and if you can get yourself a copy of the Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy, and any simple 3-D viewer (that’s right, the kind you had when you were a kid), you too can view the reels in all their 3-D glory.
As you can see here though, even the 2-D versions of these images are stunning, and well worth a look.
The collection resides at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. It came about as a 17 year collaboration between David L. Bassett, and photographer William Gruber.
*and FYI – Gruber actually invented that little plastic Viewmaster you had as a child!*
To view Stanford’s collection online, go here…
http://lane.stanford.edu/bassett/index.html