Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne

Mit Press

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

Christopher Payne

209 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction art history psychology dark informative reflective medium-paced
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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 the mid-ninet...

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