Burns Archive

The Burns Archive is a collection of over 700,000 vintage photographs noted for iconic, historical images, including medical photography, anatomical oddities, post-mortem photography and graphic detail of the darker side of life—death, disease, disaster, crime, racism, revolution, riots, and war. The Burns Archive also publishes the Sleeping Beauty series of books about memorial photography with post-mortem photographs.

The Burns Archive is made up of copy prints from the Burns Collection, the body of work of Dr. Stanley B. Burns, M.D., an ophthalmologist and its creator, curator, and proprietor. The collection is purportedly the nation's largest of early medical photography and the most important private historic nineteenth century documentary photography collection in the world and is a unique source of historic visual documentation. This is a unique source generally available as stock photography.

References

External links

• The Burns Archive Blog
• The Burns Archive
• Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement and The Family In Memorial Photography American & European Traditions
• Sleeping Beauty III: Memorial Photography - The Children
• The Burns Archive: A Collection of Historic Images that Uncover our Astonishing Past
• From the Burns Archive: The Deadly Rays That Cured Cancer
• "Stan Burns (Sleeping Beauty)" 2004 grid photograph by Stu Levy