ScienceOctober 31, 2009 7:34 am
The rise and fall of the asylum?
There's a sort-of photographic essay entitled From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums. Should we Inside the Asylum feel insulted? Worried? And is being a snake-pit necessarily a bad thing? So what's it all really about?
Mental illness? Hah. Now I am insulted.Christopher Payne visited and photographed 70 such institutions across the US for his book Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals, which documents how their fall from grace reflects changing attitudes to mental illness
Some of these buildings are pretty cool.
I wish my house had an entry vestibule like the one in Image 4.
Comment by Lentz of Goulburn — November 1, 2009 @ 1:58 am