Meryl Levin's
Anatomy of Anatomy series depicts a group
of medical students during their initial dissection
of cadavers in a gross anatomy class and includes
excerpts from the journals they kept during the
course.
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Meryl Levin
Meryl Levin is a freelance photographer based
in New York City. After studying poetry from 1985-1987
at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, she
graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts Photography
Department at New York University in 1990. Since
1989 her work has focused on issues of women's
health, AIDS, homelessness and medical care of
underprivileged children worldwide, and more recently
on the training of medical students. Her photographs
have been published in magazines and newspapers
worldwide. Now working independently, from 1991-2001,
Levin was represented by cooperative photo-agency,
Impact Visuals.
In 2000 & 2001, she was named an Open Society
Institute Fellow as part of their Project on Death
in America, which enabled the publication of her
first book, Anatomy of Anatomy (Third Rail
Press, 2000). An exhibition by the same name has
now traveled to over twelve medical educational
institutions around the country. In support of
her long-term project about health care in the
poorly-served south Bronx, Levin received a grant
from the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund in 2001,
and has exhibited this work at Duke University
and New York University. She received a NY Fellowship
for the Arts in Photography in 1994. Levin is
an adjunct faculty member at the School of Visual
Arts where she teaches social documentary photography.
"ANATOMY OF ANATOMY, a book and traveling
exhibition, combines photographs of a group of
medical students during their dissection of cadavers
in gross anatomy class, with excerpts from journals
they kept during the course. The book features
a foreword by physician and novelist, Abraham
Verghese. As a documentary photographer with an
interest in social issues related to health care,
I have long been intrigued by the intense training
of physicians. And this intensity was no better
revealed to me than in my documentation of 1st-year
medical students as they struggled to learn human
anatomy through the generosity of individuals
who, in death, donated their bodies to medical
education."
- Meryl Levin
For more information about Ms. Levin, please
visit:
http://www.thirdrailpress.org
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