Cautionary tale # 3: Budding Joel Peter Witkins beware. Last year Cincinnati photographer & artist Thomas Condon was convicted to 2 and a half years in prison for "gross abuse of a corpse".
Condon's photos depicted autopsied bodies from the local morgue that had been posed with inanimate objects such as sheet music, doll house furniture and a snail shell.
Although Condon had been given access to the morgue by a pathologist, he had not received permission from the families of the deceased.
Photographer's sentence: 2 1/2 years
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