File:Linda Alterwitz Number 16 2010.jpg

Photograph by Linda Alterwitz, Untitled #16 (photograph from the project "While I Am Still," 24" x 24", 2010). The image illustrates a key earlier body of work by Linda Alterwitz in the late 2000s and 2010s when she produced photographic and collaged works that superimposed medical visualizations (x-rays, MRI scans, thermographic images) onto abstracted portraits and landscapes. In this work, from her "While I Am Still" project (2009–14), she repurposed positron emission tomography (PET) scans using alternative, low-tech cameras, then digitally overlaid them with her photographs of landscape and fabrics. The resulting black-and-white and color images revealed ethereal, ghost-like figures that seemed to wrestle with fleeting moments of sadness, fear, comfort and hope. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Linda Alterwitz. Copyright held by the artist.

Linda Alterwitz

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key earlier body of work by Linda Alterwitz in the late 2000s and 2010s: her complex photographic and collaged works that superimposed medical visualizations (x-rays, MRI scans, thermographic images) onto abstracted portraits and landscapes, blurring distinctions between the outer body, its underlying systems and organs, and the external environment. These works Integrated art, science and technology, investigating the inner workings of the human body and its connection to the natural world and cosmos. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this foundational body of work, which brought Alterwitz early recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and institutional attention. Alterwitz's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Linda Alterwitz, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.