Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Tapa dura - 2009 - 1st Edición

The MIT Press, 2009-09-04. hardcover. Very Good. 10x0x12. Dust jacket has edge bumping and light wear. Unmarked, pages clean & bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day.

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MIT Press, 2009-09-04. Illustrated. hardcover. Used: Good.

Cambridge, M.A.: The MIT Press, 2009. New hardcover - item is still in shrinkwrap.. Hardcover. New.

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Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From t

The MIT Press, 2009-09-04. hardcover. Very Good. 10x0x12. Clean but dust jacket torn at the back. Ships promptly.

Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2009. (USA) 5th printing of the first edition No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket with tiny rubbed mark to upper flap fold corner of cover. Hardcover, 210pp, full-page colour and B&W photos of abandoned and derelict mental hospitals. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the… Leer más

MIT Press, 2009-09-04. Illustrated. hardcover. Used:Good.