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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals at UMMA - University of Michigan Museum of Art

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1/21 7 p.m.

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In the Helmut Stern Auditorium. The University of Michigan Visual Culture Workshop presents a lecture by Christopher Payne, a photographer from New York City who specializes in the documentation of America's vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. A trained architect who has documented structural forms for the National Park Service and produced drawings for scholarly excavations of Greco-Roman sites, Payne will be presenting work from his much-anticipated new book, "Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals" (MIT Press, 2009), which is the result of a six-year exploration of America's numerous, vast and largely abandoned state mental institutions.

Join in for a guided photographic tour of these spaces, and a discussion of the social, medical, architectural, aesthetic, and historiographic issues raised by the images.

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