Andres Serrano The Morgue

The Morgue Andres Serrano s, large color photographs taken in morgues are portraits, figure studies, and studies of the hands, feet, heads, and genitals of corpses. We see, at close range and larger than life, stab wounds and scalpel incisions, flesh bloated from drowning and discolored by poison, ears and noses half burned away, fists clenched as though to ward off blows. Serrano had permission to take lights and backdrops into the morgues, that is, he worked with the freedom and control of th