The Surgeon and the Photographer Drinkware CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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

as well as a complete transcription of his Nootka Diary

Packaged in a deluxe gift box

The Surgeon and the Photographer Drinkware CCA Wattis Institute for ContemporaryThe 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