Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. 1818 – January 8

1818 – January 8

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2 november 1925) was een Nederlands kunstschilder

Shigeru Uchida

Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. 1818 – January 8Powerful 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 the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals