Asylum, Hospital, Haven
Author | : Ruth Valentine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Epsom (England) |
ISBN | : 9780952830603 |
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Author | : Ruth Valentine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Epsom (England) |
ISBN | : 9780952830603 |
Author | : Mark Hahn |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2017-07-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781548200435 |
Located in Laurel Maryland and sandwiched in between an FBI training facility, the massive central NSA complex and a juvenile detention center, the abandoned Forest Haven Asylum can be seen as an epicenter of bad policies and worse politics. Just as any one of these new institutions can become a gateway that separates you from your freedom, it had been the same for the many patients committed to the asylum, often against their will. Standing on these grounds can cause most people to give pause to contemplate society's and the government's ability to strip you of all your rights and that there is a fine line separating those who are on the inside and those on the outside. While the only road leading into the ruined asylum is protected by a gate and armed guards, locals know that there are trails through the woods that lead into the facility. As anyone who has made the hike in knows, it is a haunting, frightening and exhilarating experience. In From the Inside, Mark Hahn uses his photographic art to both share his experiences, thoughts and emotions that were stirred up while spending three days inside this abandoned asylum and document the ruins as they are preserved today. His images can be seen as a platform from which to ponder the questions of freedom, mental illness and the social contracts that we most often ignore while trying to get through life. Speaking on this body of work, Hahn has said, "My goal was never to create a work that would shock or horrify the viewer, even though the facility has a brutal history and aspects of it are [and were] horrifying. But as an artist, I used the experience as a way to explore my own emotions though photography in a place where the archaeology could be used to transcend its past and through the experience, become an exploration into my own inner-self."
Author | : Barbara Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022627392X |
In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London
Author | : Matt Van Der Velde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782361951634 |
Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America's very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.
Author | : Erving Goffman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351327747 |
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self. Each of the essays in this book were intended to focus on the same issue--the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Each chapter approaches the central issue from a different vantage point, each introduction drawing upon a different source in sociology and having little direct relation to the other chapters. This method of presenting material may be irksome, but it allows the reader to pursue the main theme of each paper analytically and comparatively past the point that would be allowable in chapters of an integrated book. If sociological concepts are to be treated with affection, each must be traced back to where it best applies, followed from there wherever it seems to lead, and pressed to disclose the rest of its family.
Author | : Matthew Christopher |
Publisher | : Jonglez Photo Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9782361950941 |
Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Mental health |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christine Stevenson |
Publisher | : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780300085365 |
The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the hospitals and public response to them.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Mental health |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2280 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : |
Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.