Schlagwort: Großbritannien
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Rhiannon Adam : Big Fence
… Pitcairn epitomises Utopia. A land of milk and honey under the Pacific skies – always just out of reach, but vivid in the mind’s eye. In 2004, this façade slipped, when a series of child sexual abuse allegations emerged. The British investigation, Operation Unique, uncovered decades of abuse. Abuse that had been festering in…
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Anton Corbijn : In Control
The film details the troubled life of Ian Curtis, vocalist, lyricist and guitarist of the band Joy Division. His songs filled with emotional pain, violence, and alienation, his eerie baritone voice, and his unique dancing style reminiscent of the epileptic seizures he experienced made him a hero of the post-punk era; his suicide at the…
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Daniel Regan : I want to live
18 von Texten begleitete Portaitfotografien, die (zumeist ehrenamtliche) Mitarbeiter des Projekts zur Suizidprävention unter dem Namen Maytree zeigen. Dazu stillebenartige Aufnahmen, die im Haus dieses Projekts aufgenommen wurden.
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Martin Parr : Prestwich Mental Hospital 1972
Prestwich Mental Hospital was Martin Parr’s first cohesive documentary project whilst he was studying at Manchester Polytechnic
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N.N. : Afraid of the Dark
Enthalten sind u.a. Fotografien und ein kurzer Text zum Thema „Investigating the History of Psychiatric Photography“ (u.a. zu Cayré, Rodez Asylum, Gaston Pâris) und Fotografien von Matthias Olmeta zum Thema.
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Marvel Harris : Marvel
MARVEL describes the journey of Marvel Harris’ personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years.
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Paddy summerfield : Home Movie
Aus dem im Buch abgedruckten Essay von Particia Baker-Cassidy: „Paddy Summerfield’s Home Movie tells the oldest story, the saddest story, a story that includes the story-teller. It is the Fall of Man, falling from innocence into exile, a dark world of claustrophobic interiors, of low life bars and stained streets, of casual fornication in shabby…
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Hélène Selam Kleih : Him + His
Anthologie mit zahlreichen Beiträgen aus den Bereichen Malerei, Illustration, Fotografie, Text, Lyrik, die sich mit dem Thema mentaler Gesundheit von Männern befassen.
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Sander L. Gilman (Hrsg.) : The Face of Madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography
Brattleboro 2014, Echo Point Books & Media ISBN 978-1-62654-923-4, Broschur 126 Seiten, 54 Tafelabbildungen, 20 cm x 25,5 cm
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Mark Davis : Voices from the Asylum
The voices of ‘the apparent insane’ who were admitted to the former pauper lunatic asylum at Menston are for the most preserved in the original medical casebooks catalogued and stored at the West Yorkshire Archive Service in the unique collection identified as C485.
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N. N. : Pazzi. Portraits from a lunatic asylum. Inmates at West Riding Asylum, in Yorkshire, England
Mania of suspicion, monomania of pride – obsolete diagnoses that would be seen as part of wider mental illnesses today. The men and women in these portraits became the labels themselves, rather than people first.
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Adrienne Burrows, Iwan Schumacher : Doktor Diamonds Bildnisse von Geisteskranken
Monographie zu Leben und Werk von Hugh Welch Diamond, der als Pionier der „psychiatrischen Fotografie“ gilt. Neben dem Text von Adrienne Burrows und Iwan Schumacher und 71 Tafelabbildungen der Porträts von Patienten enthält der Band auch zeitgenössische Originaltexte von John Connoly und Hugh Welch Diamond in deutscher Übersetzung.