Revision psychiatric hospital in New York City (13 photos)

Jon Crispin is known not only in the circles of photographers, but also in the circles of psychiatrists, since as objects of art prefers abandoned and existing psychiatric hospitals and their contents (patients, physicians, and the like). Therefore, when the state "revealed" were empty at the end of XX century hospital The Willard Asylum in New York and there found hundreds of suitcases personal items belonging to the mentally ill, called him John.



 



For each photo hiding man, albeit with a mental disorder. Photographs, letters, trinkets - they all say that the patients still had some normal people.





The hospital was closed in 1995 and the staff while collecting items found in the attic of these time capsules deposits remaining after the death of useless patients. Many of them date back to XIX century.







How to collect these bags? The clinic was designed for patients with chronic diseases. And if a person was in there, it was most likely forever. And the house could take only one suitcase.













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