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Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (Mit Press)

Christopher Payne

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-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 inst...

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It was a book of photographs of 70 abandoned mental hospitals in the United States, and was mentioned when discussing a photographer who had visited many Kirkbride asylums. The photographer found them beautiful, not creepy.

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Chris Payne is a photographer who's probably been inside more Kirkbrides than anybody else. He photographed 70 abandoned mental hospitals in 30 states for a book called Asylum, Inside the Closed World...

— Episode: The Kirkbride Plan

Episode: The Kirkbride Plan

It was a book of photographs of 70 abandoned mental hospitals in the United States, and was mentioned when discussing a photographer who had visited many Kirkbride asylums. The photographer found them beautiful, not creepy.

"

Chris Payne is a photographer who's probably been inside more Kirkbrides than anybody else. He photographed 70 abandoned mental hospitals in 30 states for a book called Asylum, Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.

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