Anesthesiologist & Artist
The photographs of Alfred Feingold, M.D.
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SACRIFICE: The Orozco frescoeswhich adorn the walls of the reserve room corridor in Dartmouth's Baker Librarymade a strong impression on Feingold when he was an undergraduate. Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco painted the murals in the 1930s when he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Art. Feingold added the OR lights and superimposed a surgical procedure on this panel, which is titled "Ancient Human Sacrifice." |
This mural is one that I remember from when I was a freshman at Dartmouth. Orozco must have spent time in an operating room, because he got the lighting just right. It's almost like there are OR lights shining on that picture. All I had to do was overlay an actual operation and operating lights. I didn't do anything with the focus of the lighting. I'm convinced that Orozco spent time in a hospital, because if you look at some of his other muralslike one where he shows a woman in stirrups delivering test-tube babieshe had to know exactly what a delivery suite looked like. He got it right. |
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MAGICAL HANDS: Paul Kispert, M.D., a general surgeon, looks almost ghostlike here as he performs an exploratory laparotomy and resection of the small bowel. Feingold achieved the effect by rendering the background as a grayscale image, while leaving the hands and the surgical site in the foreground in full color. |
It's almost like the hands in this image are separated from the body. That's sometimes the feeling I get with some of these really masterful surgeonsthat their hands seem to be completely separated from their body. They're doing such wonderful work. |