Media

Below is a selection of the most prominent reviews, academic studies, book covers, and media coverage featuring Dr. Teplica's work.

Selected Photographic Reviews

“Photo Show Takes Second Look at Twins”, Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, 22 February 1991, p. 21
“Doctor Blends Science and Art in Pictures of Identical Twins”, Larry Thal, Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1991, Friday Section, pp. 64-65
Review of DOUBLE FOCUS: David Teplica M.D, Victoria Lautman, Channel 5 Evening News, Chicago, 15 February 1991
“Photographing Twins”, show review and interview with Victoria Lautman and Neil Tesser, Artistic License, WBEZ Radio, Chicago, 1 March 1991
“Light in Floods - Hine, Teplica, and the Documentation of Childhood Tragedies”, Ames Hall, P-form: Performance Art Magazine, No. 27, Winter 1993, pp. 8-9
“On View: David Teplica, scars of childhood”, James Hugunin, New Art Examiner, February 1993, pp. 28-29
“Burned kids' photos sear viewer's hearts”, Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio; TX, 24 December 1993
“Photographer Embraces Passion in the 1990s”, by Ruth Latter, Lifestyles Section, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Thursday, 12 October 1995
“AIDS Exhibit Traps Victims inside Skin”, by Todd Ritter and Jessica Tetrault, The Daily Collegian, Penn State University, University Park, PA, Friday, 1 December 1995, p. 17
“Teplica and Shuler’s Rapture: Love and Dis - ease in the Modern World”, by Kay Picart, Arts & Entertainment, Voices of Central Pennsylvania, March 1996, p. 16
“Facing Reality”, by Steven Rosen, Arts and Entertainment, The Denver Post, Thursday, 25 July 1996
“Dr. Teplica’s Painful Shots”, Chicago Reader, 5 July 1996.
“Twin Peeks”, by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 10 September 1998.
“Rapture: At the Interface between Love and Disease”, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, November, 1998
“Natural Clones in Focus”, BBC News, London, England, 22 July 1999
“Outraged by War in Iraq, Artist’s Respond”, by Kevin Nance, Sun Times, Chicago, IL, 9 September 2004
“Song and Surgery”, with host Sheri Caswell Dost, on “Hello Beautiful”, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, 9 March 2008
“The Body how You’ve Never seen it Before”, by Chuck Beard, examiner.com, 9 November 2009
“Artrageous ’09: A Sweet Time”, by Leisa A. Hammett, leisahammett.typepad.com, 19 November 2009

Selected Biographical References

(Including articles, photographic essays, book features, and exhibition catalog essays)

“Linking Art and Medicine”, Steve Adams, The Dartmouth Medical School Alumni Magazine, Hanover, NH, Spring 1985
“Seeing Double: An artist-physician studies twins to explore the science of beauty”, Frank James, Tempo cover story, Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, 11 April 1990
“Twin Peeks: About Faces”, by Mary Ruth Yoe, The University of Chicago Magazine, Chicago, summer 1990, cover image and pp. 22-25
“Study of Twins”, John Stone, cover story, Kodak Tech Bits, No. 2, 1990
“Science and Beauty”, The Jack Taylor Show, Channel 26, Chicago, November 1990.
“Duophotomonozygotic Illusion”, James Hugunin, Exhibition Catalog for DOUBLE FOCUS David Teplica, MD, February 1991
“In the Eye of the Beholder: A Double Vision of Beauty in Art and Medicine”, Lisa Roney, cover story, The Penn Stater, University Park, PA, May-June 1991
“The Twinsburg Photographic Archive: One Man's Fusion of Science and Beauty”, Greg Rice, PHOTOMETHODS, October 1991, p. 38-41
“The Body Reunified? The Body Reconstructed?”, Margaret W. Scheyer, in Barbara Maria Stafford (Ed.), Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display, a catalog for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, January 1992, pp. 44-48 and 52
“Hands of a Surgeon, Eye of an Artist”, by Kathleen Wagner, Gannett News Service, with national syndicated release, New York, NY, 18 June 1992
“Local Heroes: Doctor Teplica's Double Takes”, Kathryn Livingston, American PHOTO, November/December 1992, New York, NY
“Black, white images record the trauma of young burn victims”, Allan Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 November 1992
“‘Archeography in Eden’/Eden in Extremis?”, exhibition catalog essay by James Hugunin, Gallery Fotographie, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993
“Doktor a Fotograf: David Teplica”, a photographic essay of the X-Ray collages of David Teplica with text by L. S. Pripravil, in ed. Daniela Mrazkova, Fotographie, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993, pp. 10-11
“Childhood burn injury and the scars of childhood exhibition”, Dr. Frank Field, CBS News, New York, NY, 13 July 1993
“‘Tis the season to be wary”, John Swinton, State College Magazine, State College, PA, December 1993, pp. 28-33
“Double Mystery”, by Larry Wright with photographic essay by David Teplica, New Yorker, 7 August 1995
“Secrets Twins Tell Us”, by Larry Wright with photographic essay by David Teplica, London Guardian (Weekend Magazine), 14 October 1995
“Zwillinge: Das Doppelte Geheimnis”, essay of photographs by David Teplica, with text by Lawrence Wright in Psychologie Heute, January 1996, pp. 30-41
“Surgeon/Photographer Has Singular Focus: Twins”, Associated Press, 14 January 1996
“When Love Kills: Grieving over AIDS with Song and Sculpture [sic]”, by Larry Keough, Florida State Times, Vol. 1, No. 5, February/March 1996, p. 3
“Rapture: A Photographer Focuses his Camera on Love in the Era of AIDS”, by Marsha Ducey, The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, NY, 28 March 1996, cover image and pp. 8-9
“Teplica: When Art Meets Science”, by David Lamborn, The BPC Bulletin, The Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Spring 1996, p. 5
“An Essential Duality: The Twin Passions of David Teplica”, by Lee McDavid, Dartmouth Medicine, Fall 1996, cover image and pp. 40-44
“Doppia Identita”, photographic essay by David Teplica, Glamour (Italian), Milan, November 1996, pp. 156-159
“Nature’s Clones”, by Jill Neimark, Psychology Today, New York, NY, 1 July 1997, pp. 36-69
“Monozygotic Fusion, David Teplica”, by Christian Peterson, exhibition catalog from “The Poetics of Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake”, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, September 1997
“Twins”, by Larry Wright, with illustrations by David Teplica, Orion Publishers, London, England, November 1997
“Identical Twins: Double Takes by David Teplica MD, MFA” photographic essay, Medical and Health Annual, Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, IL, 1997, pp. 140-151
“Birth of Man: With Homage to Michelangelo”, by Bettyann Kevles in “Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century”, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, April 1998
“A Raiz Da Diferenca: Estudo dos gemeos tenta explicar o papel da genetica na formacao da personalidade”, photographic essay by David Teplica, with text by Mauricio Cardoso, in Veja, Sao Paolo, Brazil, April, 1999, pp. 94-97
“Wonder in Tweevoud”, photographic essay by David Teplica, with text by Marcel Roele, Algemeen Dagblad Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 January 2000, pp.16-23
“David Teplica, MD”, exhibition catalog for ‘eMotion Pictures: an Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art,’ printed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, IL, September 2001
“Surgeon, Photographer: Dr. David Teplica”, in FUTURES: Stories of Life After SAIC, Career Development and the office of Student Affairs, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Volume I, January 2002
“On the Big Screen: Renovated historic home catches attention of ‘Dragonfly’ director”, by Deborah Donovan, Daily Herald, Sunday, 10 February 2002
“David Teplica MD, MFA”, in eds. Revilla, R., and Turano, M., BPC Bulletin, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Spring 2002, pp. 2-5
“HIV Patients Try to Remedy Gaunt Appearance”, by David Tuller, New York Times, Tuesday, 21 May 2002
“‘eMotion’al exhibition”, by Rich Kerstetter, cover story Health & Science section, Centre Daily Times, 27 January 2003
“Science as Art”, by Michael R. Peres and David Malin, in The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Michael Peres, ed., Focal Press, Elsevier Inc., Burlington, MA, 2007, page 492
“Figurative Fugues: The Artistry of David Teplica”, by Lisa Wainwright, Interim Dean of Faculty and Dean of Graduate Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; in “Intimate Decade”, exhibition catalog, the Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL, 22 May 2008
“Images from Science 2: An Exhibition of Scientific Photography” exhibition catalog, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Cary Graphics Arts Press, 2008, pp.106-107
“Twofold: International Twin Congress and More”, Nancy L. Segal, PhD, in Psychology Today, 17 May 2012

Biographical and Image Archives

The Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Papers, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
The Digital Public Library of America, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Book Covers

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation and Perinatal Outcome, ed. Louis Keith, cover image “Untitled (Alexandra and Jaclyn Payto, age 3, Brecksville, Ohio), 1990”, Parthenon Publishing Group, Carnforth, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 1995
TriQuaterly 98, ed. Hahn, S., Winter 1996/97, Northwestern University Press, cover image “Untitled, 1992”, photographic series, and accompanying essay “Rapture: at the interface between love and disease”, pp 144-157 by Teplica, D., Evanston, IL
I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb, cover image “Inborn (The Biermann Twins), 1997”, Regan Books of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1998, Oprah’s Book Club and New York Times #1 Bestseller with over 1.4 million copies in print
The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution, by Pierre Baldi, cover image “Ovum, 1998”, a Bradford Book, the MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001
Double Take: The Story of Twins, by Daniel Jussim, cover image “Monozygotic Fusion, 1988”, Viking Books, the Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2001
Holiday, by Susan Hahn, cover image “Untitled, from the Rapture Series, 1996”, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2001
Iatrogenic Multiple Pregnancy: Clinical Implications, eds. I. Blickstein and L.G. Keith, cover image “Reunion (the MacCumber Twins), 1999”, The Parthenon Publishing Group, Carnforth, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2001
Tweelingen Jumeaux, Twins, cover image “Reunion (the MacCumber Twins), 1999”, by the Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 2002
Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome, Second Edition, eds. I. Blickstein and L.G. Keith, cover image “Untitled (The Biermann Twins), 1997”, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2005
Lifelines 2006, A Dartmouth Medical School Literary Journal, ed. Meghan McCoy, cover image “Anna Radasky (The Last Time I Saw My Grandmother), 1995”, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2006

Television & Radio Features

“The Psychology of Identical Twins”, Jenny Jones Show, NBC Television, March 1992
“The Unexplained”, the Twin Photographs of David Teplica, A & E, 11 September 1997
“Twin Stories”, Turner Original Productions, Time-Warner Company, 19 October 1997
“Skin Deep: Plastic Surgery Stories”, Turner Original Productions, Time-Warner Company, 12 August 1998
“The Secret Life of Twins”, BBC1, three one-hour segments, London, 14, 21, and 28 July 1999
“The Secret Life of Twins”, released in the United States by TLC, 1999-2000
“Sociology of Plastic Surgery” with David Teplica and James Hugunin, hosted by Victoria Lautman, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, 9l.5 FM, www.wbez.org, 21 December 1999
“We Two are One”, 20/20, ABC News, New York, 17 February 2000
“Looking Good & Feeling Great”, with host Lisa Thornton, Walgreens Health Corner, WGN Superstation, 22 May 2004
“Three to See”, with host Matt Cunningham, featuring the top three art experiences for Chicagoland for the week, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, 7 March 2008
“The Secret Life of Twins”, two new one-hour segments, BBC, London, September 2009, and released thereafter on TLC in the United States in 2010 http://cms-ind.prod.indes.firstclarity.com/arts-entertainment/television-review-1106519.html
“Lone Twin: Pas de Deux”, a film by Anna Van der Wee, Wild Heart Productions (Belgium) and Storyline Entertainment (Canada), 2012
“Surgery for Sagging Earlobes”, Fox News Chicago, 11 September 2012
“Chicago Doctor’s Study of Twins Reveals Surprising Answers”, Fox News Chicago, 19 February 2013
“Take Note: Penn State Alum Dr. David Teplica on Gender-Appropriate Plastic Surgery”, Conversations from Penn State, Host Patty Satalia, WPSU Radio, University Park, PA, 24 April 2014
“Architecture of the Body: What do plastic surgery and photography have in common?”, Conversations from Penn State, Host Patty Satalia, WPSU Television, University Park, PA, 28 August 2014

Media Reproductions of Photographs

(Not already included elsewhere)

“The Best of College Photography 1985”, Photographer's Forum Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985
“George Tooker, 1985”, exhibition catalog for “George Tooker: Working Drawings”, by Ildiko Heffernan, published by the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1987
“Anatomic Differences in Faces of Identical Twins”, Twins Days Festival Catalog and poster, the Center for Study of Multiple Birth, Twinsburg, OH, 1989
“Birth of Man: With Homage to Michelangelo”, Chicago Medicine, 93: 7, p. IX, 7 April 1990, and 93: 8, p. 21, 21 April 1990
“A monoplace hyperbaric chamber”, Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 263, No. 16, p. 2218, 25 April 1990
“Monozygotic Fusion”, Appropriated by Soviet Television as logo for Moscow program Face to Face, July 1990
“The Awakening”, Twins Days Festival Poster welcoming Soviet Twins to Twinsburg, OH; © The Center for Study of Multiple Birth, August 1990
“Double Time”, Mia Adessa, The New Physician, March 1991, p. 5
“BEWARE...BE AWARE, Scald injury scars or kills thousands of children each year.” first in a series of burn prevention posters for international distribution, © the CHILDREN'S BURN AWARENESS PROGRAM, Chicago, IL, November 1991
“Charles Benton Huggins, 1987”, in ed. Shils, E., Remembering the University of Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, p.171
“Untitled (the Dworkin twins), 1990”, cover image, Solutions Quarterly: Psychological and Physical Fitness, Chicago, Fall 1991
“Reality and Manipulated Truths”, poster, The Rochester Institute of Technology Press, Rochester, NY, April 1992
“Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome III”, 1990, photographic post card to benefit University of Chicago photographic research and programs, © Fotofolio, New York, NY, May 1992
“Untitled (the Dworkin chins), 1990”, photographic postcard to benefit University of Chicago photographic research and programs, © Fotofolio, New York, NY, April 1993
“Jumeaux”, photographs of identical twins, Science et Nature, Paris, France, No. 37, October 1993, pp. 56-69
“scars of childhood: Exhibit focuses on trauma, prevention of children's burns”, Sarah Rilling, San Antonio Express News, San Antonio, TX, 10 November 1993, p.14
“Monozygotic Fusion”, chapter opener for Blueprint for Life, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, November 1993
“Homosexuell: Das Buch fur Homosexuell Leibende, ihre Angehorigen und ihre Gegner”, by Hans-Georg Wiedema, Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, “Untitled (the Dworkin Twins), 1990”, cover image, 1995
“Monozygotic Fusion, 1988”, in Conversation Piece: How the Other Half Lives, Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, November/December 1995, p. 24
“The Awakening, 1988”, in Elkins, James, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996, p. 175
“Inborn (The Biermann Twins), 1997” in Unforgettable Faces: The Decade’s Best Portraits, Chicago Magazine, Chicago, IL, December 1998, p. 117
“Identity, 1991”, monozygotic twin fingerprints, Human Body, Time-Life Books, Richmond, VA, 1999, p. 113
“Untitled (The Payto Twins), 1990” and “The Bossolt Twins, 1990”, with text by Scott Wilson, Double Vision in Health, in Orgyn: Organon’s Magazine on Women & Health, No. 4, 2002, pp. 20-24
“Frustration, Logic, and Resolution, 2008”, a composite image sequence of highly standardized photographs of a male torso, illustrating the preoperative, anatomically mapped, and postoperative views, in the exhibition catalog Images from Science 2: An Exhibition of Scientific Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, NY, 2008, pp.106-107.
“Ovum, 1998” poster image for the group exhibition “Creative Minds”, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2014
“Surface Mapping of Masculine Body Form”, in the exhibition catalog for Visualising Medicine: An Exhibition of Medical Photography, editor and coordinator Afzal Ansary, published by The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, May 2014, p. 11