Morning's Work : Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive and Collection 1843-1939

Photographs from the first century of photography (1839-1939) acquired by Stanley Burns. Recognizing how readily available photos were to collectors in the 1970s, Burns began assembling an archive that would document medical & social history. Recently medical care has undergone tremendous changes in its systems of delivery. Burns conceived this book as a tribute to a dying system, a visual legacy of the heroic age of medical individualism. Though first attracted to these images as historical documents, he became aware they also had considerable artistic & emotional appeal, as slices of life both credible & immediate in their impact precisely because they were visual. Includes 127 black & white plates & detailed notes on each plate.Burns, Stanley B. is the author of 'Morning's Work : Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive and Collection 1843-1939', published 2006 under ISBN 9780756797805 and ISBN 0756797802.