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This manipulated photo shows the effects of sunlight on the health of the body.
Fritz Kahn, Zurich-Leipzig, 1939
From Der Mensch gesund und krank, Menschenkunde (Man in Structure and Function), Vol. 2, 1940
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The cycle of carbon dioxide by Fritz Kahn, 1929
Via Codez xcix (original scan courtesy Frank Darrow)
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The Cycle of Virtue and Substance by Fritz Kahn, 1929
Via Codez xcix (original scan courtesy Frank Darrow)
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Man and Machine Exhibit Farreaching Similarities by Fritz Kahn
From Fritz Kahn, Man in Structure and Function, 1943
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Fritz Kahn, The Speed of Thought, 1943
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Fritz Kahn, Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as ‘industrial palace,’ really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced.
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This manipulated photo shows the effects of sunlight on the health of the body.
Fritz Kahn, Zurich-Leipzig, 1939
From Der Mensch gesund und krank, Menschenkunde (Man in Structure and Function), Vol. 2, 1940
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Fritz Kahn, Das Leben des Menschen; eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwick-lungs-geschichte des Menschen. Vol. 2
Stuttgart, 1926. Relief halftone. National Library of Medicine.
The nervous system here is visually compared to an electronic signaling system; the brain is an office where messages are sorted.
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Fritz Kahn, Das Leben des Menschen (The Life of Man), Vol. 5.
Stuttgart, 1931. Relief halftone. National Library of Medicine
The physiology of vision, with the rods and cones of the pupils as receptors of light, is compared to the technology of photographic reproduction in which an image is screened and broken down into dot patterns.