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Eugene Richards - A Procession of Them - 9780292719101 - V9780292719101
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A Procession of Them

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Description for A Procession of Them Hardback. In some countries, they call them the 'abandonados', the abandoned ones. They're the mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. This work contains images that reveal the inhumane treatment suffered by the mentally disabled. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 152 pages, 71 duotones, 1 DVD. BIC Classification: AJCR; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 174 x 18. Weight in Grams: 654.

In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. Confined in cage-like cells, tied to beds soiled with human waste, medicated to the point of senselessness, or wandering naked in unheated and garage-like wards, they live in what can only be called the shadows, their plight unseen and too easily ignored by the rest of the human family.

Working first as a journalist, later as a volunteer for the human rights organization Mental ... Read more

Making us face some hard truths, A Procession of Them drives home the point that when it comes to the plight of the mentally disabled, "no one much cares." As Richards concludes, it's "as if there is a kind of worldwide agreement that once people are classified as mentally ill or mentally retarded, you're free to do to them what you want."

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292719101
SKU
V9780292719101
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Eugene Richards
One of the world's foremost documentary photographers, Eugene Richards has received many of photography's prestigious honors, including the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for the coverage of the ... Read more

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