The University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in conjunction with Penfield Press proudly announces the publication of The Hole in My Vision: An Artist's View of his own Macular Degeneration by Lee Allen. Preface by Thomas A. Weingeist, PhD, MD.

At the age of 78, artist Lee Allen, whose retina was beginning to suffer from age-related macular degeneration, realized that he could see the defects in his vision. For a decade he studied these defects and carefully drew pictures of the holes in his vision, showing the way they changed with time and with laser surgery.

"We are all indebted to Lee Allen. At an age when most people are just coasting, he still wanted to know why his eyes were misbehaving and he fought back, in his own way, by trying to understand what his macular disease was doing to him, and in the process he created an astonishing series of drawings."
-H. Stanley Thompson, MD