Schlagwort: USA
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Charlee Brodsky : I Thought I Could Fly. Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair
I believe these stories communicate how mental illness manifests itself in live. I learned much from checklists that professionals showed me about my daughter’s illness, but i learned more from sharing and hearing stories from ordinary people.
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Christopher Payne : Asylum. Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
We tend to think of mental hospitals as “snake pits”—places of nightmarish squalor and abuse—and this is how they have been portrayed in books and film. Few Americans, however, realize these institutions were once monuments of civic pride, built with noble intentions by leading architects and physicians, who envisioned the asylums as places of refuge,…
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Mary Ellen Mark : Ward 81
In February of 1976, Mary Ellen and Karen Folger Jacobs, a writer and social scientiest, were given permission to live on the ward in order to photograph and interview the women. They spent thirty-six days on Ward 81.
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Joshua Lutz : Mind the Gap
The images and text in Joshua Lutz’s third monograph, Mind The Gap, unravels a story of attempting to find some assemblage of truth in the chaos of hierarchy, class and privilege. It is a journey for clarity, hijacked by sex, addiction, and mental illness.
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TR Ericsson : Crackle & Drag
Buch zu einer Ausstellung des Cleveland Museums of Art
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Matthew L. Casteel : American Interiors
Fotografien von Innenräumen von Autos, die US-amerikanischen Kriegsveteranen gehören, Fotografien von Matthew L. Casteel mit Texten von Jörg Colberg und Ken MacLeish
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Virginie Gautier, Francesca Woodman : Les yeux fermés, les yeux ouverts
Francesca Woodman appartient à la légende de la photographie. Née en 1958 à Denver, elle commence à prendre des photographies à l’age de treize ans. Elle se suicide à vingt-deux ans et laisse derrière elle une oeuvre dense, qui continue à influencer de nombreux photographes contemporains.
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Joshua Lutz : Hesitating Beauty
„As a child American photographer Joshua Lutz watched his mother unscrew the phone, looking for hidden recording bugs or search for patterns in license-plate numbers. His series “Hesitating Beauty” is a reflection on the relationship to his mother’s mental illness, his dealing with the fear of being affected by schizophrenia and depression himself and on…
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Ilan Stavans, Jon Crispin : What Remains. The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital
After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Centre on New York’s Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessions belonging to former patients. Three of the suitcases were owned by Charles F., an eighty-four-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant …. institutionalized at Willard State Hospital.
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LAUREN GREENFIELD : THIN
Greenfield embarks on an emotional journey through the Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida, a residential facility dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders. Greenfield profiles four patients …
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Jim Reed : A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Zitat aus Wikipedia: „ … thematisiert als erste der Geschichten Salingers über die Glass-Familie die Hintergründe und Motive für den Selbstmord des Kriegsveteranen Seymour Glass im März 1948 während eines Genesungsurlaubs mit seiner Ehefrau Muriel in Florida nach der Rückkehr aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und der Entlassung aus einem Nervensanatorium.“
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Laia Abril : The Epilogue
Cammy Robinson’s life story is reconstructed through flashbacks memories, testimonies, objects, letters, places and images. The Epilogue gives voice to the suffering of the family, the indirect victims of ‘eating disorders’, the unwilling eyewitnesses of a very painful degeneration.