From the series: Surgery Through the Ages produced for the firm David and Geck.
Creator: Lejaren à Hiller (American, b. 1880 d. 1969)
Date/Location: 1933, Rochester, NY, George Eastman House
Materials: gelatin silver print
This image was meant to be used for an advertisement. It exemplified the heightened sensationalism featured in advertising photography during the 1920s and 30s. In this staged image, a sixteenth-century physician treats plague victims. The men are all clothed, and the women are slim, nude, and in more sexually provocative positions, apparently calling this a "symptom" of the plague.
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