Asylum
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
$157.80
- Hardcover
209 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2009
Summary
Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America’s abandoned state mental hospitals.
For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262013499 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262013495 |
| Author: | Christopher Payne, Oliver Sacks |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 209 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 1.72kg |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 298mm x 260mm |
| Series: | Asylum |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
The book will appeal to historians or scholars of material culture as well as to the medical personnel, photography lovers, and citizens familiar with the lore and lure of asylums.
The book will appeal to historians or scholars of material culture as well as to the medical personnel, photography lovers, and citizens familiar with the lore and lure of asylums.
– Jane Simonsen * The Annals of Iowa *Astoundingly beautiful work on a subject that rarely gets the attention.
– Aaron Britt * Dwell *Beautifully researched, exquisitely photographed and expertly composed and edited…Extraordinary.
* Frieze *… Asylum is of enormous value, as a record of how such places looked in their final years. More than that, and despite its dismal subject matter, it makes for a remarkable and endlessly fascinating book, one that can be recommended with enthusiasm to both the architectural historian and the general reader.
* Times Literary Supplement *Christopher Payne
Christopher Payne is a photographer and practicing architect in New York City. He is the author of New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway.
The late Oliver Sacks was a neurologist and the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia, and other books.
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