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Dain Tasker (1872-1964) was a California radiologist and fine arts photographer. As a creative photographer, he used sophisticated X-ray technology to create self portraits and images of flowers. As a physician, he worked in the United States for equality between osteopathic physicians and allopathic physicians.
In 2000, twenty of his his photos were part of an exhibit called A Brief History of Botanical Photography" at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
"A calla lily is a swirl of diaphanous folds enclosing an erect stamen"
Tasker's X-ray photo of a Calla Lily was included in a 1993 exhibition called "Flora Photographica", which was shown in Vancouver, New York, Toronto and Montreal. It was called "One of the strangest and most elegant photographs in the show".[4]
- ^ Perich, Shannon (February 22, 2010). "A Camera That Can See Straight Through You". National Public Radio. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ Lewis, Danny (February 8, 2016). "Check Out These X-Rays of Flowers From the 1930s: Dain L. Tasker's radiographs depict delicate flowers from the inside out". Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ Loke, Margarett (October 6, 2000). "Art in Review; Dr. Dain L. Tasker". New York Times. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ Hagen, Charles (July 4, 1993). "Photography View; Tangled Impulses Lead Photographers To Pursue Flowers". New York Times. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ Reinsch, Sibylle; Seffinger, Michael; Tobis, Jerome (2009). The Merger: M.D.S and D.O.S in California. Xlibris. ISBN 9781469102511.