MANICOMIO : Selected Madness

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2014, Soft cover in illustrated wraps. 208 page book. A very eye opening photographic book and text on the mentally ill and psychiatric institutions that hold them around Italy. Raymond Depardon 218 full page black & white images are a story in them self of the mental state of some people. Condition : NEW, NOTE : No Drop Shipper

From Publisher:

"In 1977, I met Franco Basaglia, director of the manicomio lunatic asylum] at the hospital in Trieste, who was also the leader of an alternative psychiatric movement. Taking advantage of the chaotic political situation in Italy at the time, he started to close several psychiatric hospitals with a group of doctors, and had 'Law 180' passed in 1978, which resulted in the definitive closure of the asylums. Franco encouraged me to take photographs of this reality, 'If not, they will not believe us, ' he told me. With more than a hundred thousand people interned in psychiatric asylums all over Italy, the situation was indeed dramatic. He also introduced me to directors of other asylums in Venice, Naples, Arezzo and Turin. For four years, until the closure of the hospital on the island of San Clemente very close to Venice, I photographed these places of pain to preserve them in memory and to pay tribute to Franco Basaglia--who died from a sudden illness in 1980. My film about San Clemente came out in 1982, but it's only now thirty years later--after a long pause--that I have finally edited and designed the photographic work that was begun all those years ago." --Raymond Depardo

Product Info

ISBN: 3869305355

ISBN-13: 9783869305356

Publisher: Steidl

Year: 2013

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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