February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
30h 6m
English
Reed Brockway Bontecou, MD (1824–1907) was the Surgeon in Charge of the Harewood U.S. Army General Hospital in Washington, DC, who created aesthetic portraiture of wounded soldiers and provided the basis for future photography of medical conditions. Bontecou’s portraits are dignified, intriguing, and poignant. They are a visual record of the casualties of war and of physicians’ ability to help and to heal, revealing the nature and beauty of the human spirit. The seminal work served ...
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