The Surgeon and the Photographer Drinkware ” wherein Benjamin assesses the

” wherein Benjamin assesses the growing anxiety around the aura of the art object in the growing presence of mass reproduction technologies

Michelle Gay

and a detailed chronology illuminates Pearlman’s collecting practices in relation to noteworthy events in the art world

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

The Surgeon and the Photographer Drinkware ” wherein Benjamin assesses theThe Surgeon and the Photographer profiles all of the 365 figurative components of Geoffrey Farmer's seminal installation of the same name. The book reproduces all of the sculptures, comprised of fabric bodices onto which photographic reproductions of faces, artworks, animals, signs and various other appendages have been added. Scaled according to the human handthe same hands that handle the coffee table books from which these images were sourcedthese