Video: Luggage from the mental hospital: a series of photos of the contents of the suitcases of the mentally ill
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A very strange and peculiar, but atmospheric series of photographs of suitcases collected in an old abandoned psychiatric hospital, provides a unique opportunity to find out what people kept in their bags before they got to the hospital.
Willard Psychiatric Clinic in New York, founded in 1869, contains many secrets and sad stories associated with this eerie place. When they decided to close the hospital in 1995, old suitcases were found in the attic, which were taken from newly arrived patients in the period from 1910 to 1960. Due to the fact that most people were in treatment for a long time (about 30 years) and were forgotten and abandoned by their families, as well as their luggage, many suitcases lost their owners and went as exhibits to the National Museum of New York. Photographer John Crispin (Jon Crispin) had a unique chance not only to see these bags, but also to open them, to take a whole series of pictures called Willard Suitcasesthat tells about the lives of their owners.
- says John.
- says Crispin in his interview.
- says John, looking at the next picture.
- at the end of his interview says John Crispin.
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