Dr. Dain Tasker. Snails, 1930.

"The Snail", Dr Dain L. Tasker, 1930. Gelatin silver print [Joseph Bellows Gallery]

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Dr. Dain L. Tasker 'X-Ray of a Rose' 1938

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1935

Dr. Dain Tasker - Wide Open Lotus (1935)

X-ray image of a rose, below, that was created by Dain Tasker in 1936. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles, California, in the early days of radiology. He used fine-focus X-ray tubes to create ghostly black-and-white prints of flowers on X-ray film. The images were a hit in photography circles in the late 1930s and were published in high-profile art magazines, although his work fell into obscurity and was only rediscovered relatively recently.

Dr. Dain L. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles when radiology was in its formative phase. In the late 1920’s inspired by his knowledge of the x-ray image process, and through his developing involvement with Pictorial photography, Dr. Tasker began to record numerous varieties of flowers with the x-ray process.