Asylum by Christopher Payne
November 1, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Architecture & Photography
Photographer Christopher Payne recently shared with Dwell some images from his book Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, and boy are they something. Christopher spent six years documenting these amazing old buildings where in 1948 more than half a million people were being kept. To say the buildings are lavish is an understatement. While the occupants may or may not have been able to appreciate them, these buildings are magnificent.
Honestly they’re still kind of spooky as shit, but there’s something about abandoned buildings that for some reason tend to resonate with people. To think that these buildings were bustling with life in the last hundred years is remarkable.
You can grab a copy of Christopher’s book by clicking here.
Bobby
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If you've got something to say, keep it positive.Urban exploring and abandoned building exploring photography blow my mind. There are so many incredible photographers I have found. One of my favorites was this abandoned island off the coast of Japan that just had all these empty buildings and such. Creepy shit!
That second picture makes you realize that being stuck in a hospital such as it would have been scary. As Peter notes- Creepy!
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i once got to explore a recently closed down hospital and that was amazing/creepy enough. i can’t imagine getting to walk through something that’d been closed down ages ago and wrecked by time. beautiful images.
So did he get to take the Eames chairs??? My heart just sank knowing that those beautiful chairs were sitting there in a very scary room and not around my dining table
Ew, there’s a skull saw in the second picture.
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