New Unit Brings Together Award-Winning Photographers, Designers

With their expertise in areas ranging from medical illustration to photography to graphic art, the staff members in Yale's Photo+Design unit see it as their mission to "keep Yale looking good."

Photo+Design, part of Yale ITS Media and Technology Services, combines two departments that were recently separate entities: Media Services (formerly at 59 High St.) and Biomedical Communications (previously at 333 Cedar St.) The unit now inhabits recently renovated space at 135 College St., midway between the medical and central campuses.

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Photo+Design Supports Film Exhibit at Whitney Humanities Center

The film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, directed by Yale alumnus and faculty member George Roy Hill, premiered at the Roger Sherman Theater in New Haven in September of 1969. Another Yale alum, Paul Newman, starred in the movie with Robert Redford and Katharine Ross. During the opening, Newman visited the Film Studies center at 59 High Street, which shared office space with the Audiovisual Center (now photo+design).  Manager Joseph Szaszfai remembers the visit well, especially Newman's comment: "I don't sign autographs."

Photo+design recently copied the original storyboard of Butch Cassidy to prepare for an upcoming gallery show at the Whitney Humanities Center, "The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Materials from the George Roy Hill Collection," which will run from September 1 through October 25 this year. The Center will also host a special 35mm screening of the film on October 23 to mark its fortieth anniversary. Academy Award-winning screen writer William Goldman and producer Robert Crawford will take questions after the screening.

Photo+Design Supports Student Research Day at the Medical School

ITS Media & Technology's department of Photo and Design recently printed more than 60 posters this year for the medical school's annual Student Research Day, held on May 12th, 2009, at The Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education. Student Research Day provides a forum for graduating medical students to present their M.D. thesis work to a university-wide audience of interested faculty members and students. In addition to the poster presentations, five prize-winning theses were presented orally in a plenary session. Following these, the annual Farr Lectureship was presented by Dr. Stuart H. Orkin of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Mark Saba, Lead Designer, recently created this poster for Dr. Harry Mark, a Yale-affiliated ophthalmologist, which won the "best poster" award out of 589 posters that were on display at an international conference for the Academy of Ophthalmology in Atlanta. The poster provided a summary of important historical contributions in the field by four masters: Kepler, Mariotte, Graefe, and Helmholtz. “We print hundreds of posters each year for the Yale School of Medicine,” said Saba, and “it’s not only rewarding to support the faculty and students in this effort, but also quite remarkable when you think of the number of individuals who view and discuss the posters we produce.”

A punctate cutaneous application of capsaicin, histamine or cowhage (Mucuna Pruriens), evokes similar itch and nociceptive sensations.

Behavioral differentiation between itch and pain in mouse.

Wendolyn Hill, Medical Illustrator, created a gastroenterology illustration for Yale School of Medicine’s Surgery Department that recently aired on Connecticut’s Channel 8 News. The illustration was used in support of a feature story that discussed a groundbreaking appendectomy procedure.

Wendolyn also provided illustrations for Dr. Robert LaMotte and Steven G. Shimada for the October and July covers of Pain.

Photographers Carl Kaufman, Richard La Plante, Bill Sacco, and Bernie Staggers recently digitally retouched sensitive images and provided large-format prints for an exhibit currently on display at the Yale Art & Architecture building, Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven. The show features more than 150 prints of architectural drawings and other historical images of buildings and projects created by celebrated architect Paul Rudolph (1918–1997).