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- ISBN 10 0976449552
- ISBN 13 9780976449553
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Seeing Insanity Photography and the Depiction of Mental Illness
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Burns Archive Press, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0976449552
ISBN 13: 9780976449553
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Seller: First House Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First printing. A Finesignedand inscribedfirst printing,limited to 1000 copies. Without jacket, as issued. 42 pages. 8.75" x 11.25". This most unusual photo book is a collection of images depicting psychiatric patients in the early 1900s. Self-published by Stanley Burns, MDcollector of historic photography, particularly of the marginalized, hidden, and uncomfortableSeeing Insanity(2007) offers a brief history of psychiatric imagery with examples from the 1800s and earlier. The primary subjects, however, are women patients of an Uruguayan hospital, dating 19071909. Many of the photos were taken for intake and discharge documentation. . Seller Inventory # 27
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