Schlagwort: Großbritannien
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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.
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Alexa Wright : A View from Inside
Statement der Künstlerin auf ihrer Website: „I worked with people who experience episodes of psychosis over a one year period to create these ten portraits. Whilst the people photographed here all appear entirely ‘normal’, their ability to function within society has, to varying degrees, been affected by the experience of a psychotic ‘disorder’ such as…
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Rikard Österlund : Look, I’m wearing all the colours
This book uses images taken over a 13 year period to explore my journey as both husband and photographer trying to understand my wife’s illness. I started photographing Zara when we first met. Images of nights out, eating and kissing were soon joined by images of flare ups and hospital visits.