ICP’s museum, cafe, and shop are closed, October 12-14, while we prepare for the opening of new exhibitions, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now and Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure. Please join us on Thursday, October 15 for opening day!

Imaging the Future 2

Foreign Body, Photography and the Prelude to Genetic Modification

This exhibition explores the unconventional or afflicted human body and the way that it was recorded in photography from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The photographs were taken by a range of professionals including doctors, professional portraitists, documentary photographers, and photojournalists. Curated by Carol Squiers.

Image
G.T. Williams & Bros., Multiple Enchondroma, 1870s. Collection of the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Special Thanks