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The Greek island of Leros was for 20 years and more the site of the world's most notorious and brutal asylum for the insane. The Magnum photographer Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world and integration into society, the work of the famed Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Leros raises a number of questions. How could such a regime have existed? And how could anyone have survived it? This book was given the Judges' Special Recognition in the best books category of the International Pictures of the Year Awards 2003 and included in the PDN Photography Annual 2003 in the best books category.
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Alex Majoli is a member of the Magnum Photographic Agency. Recognised for his work in the Balkan wars of the 1990s and his social reportage, he was born in Ravenna in 1971. He became a full-time photojournalist for the Grazia-Neri Agency in 1990. He has contributed to Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. In 2003 he was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Photojournalism. He lives and works in Milan and New York.
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- PublisherTrolley Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0954207920
- ISBN 13 9780954207922
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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Book Description First edition. Oblong hardcover. Features texts by Laura Facchi, Maurizio Costantino, Franco Rotelli, Agostino Pirella, and Mario Tommasini. A powerful debut collection of black and white photographs Majoli took over the course of five trips between January 1994 through March 1995 to a psychiatric hospital on the Greek island of Leros. Includes 47 duotone illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Majoli and Facchi. A powerful book that documents some of the horrors that went on at this little known Greek island. Seller Inventory # 177240
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Ottimo (Fine). Prima edizione (First Edition). Un testo di Laura Facchi. Un estratto dal diario di Maurizio Castantino ("Vassili's Story"). Lettera di un gruppo di psichiatri italiani della clinica Franco Basaglia di Trieste. Lettera di Franco Rotelli. Fotografie in bianco e nero a piena pagina di Alex Majoli . 16mo (cm 17x25). pp. 112. Firma autografa dell'Autore (Signed by the Author). Ottimo (Fine). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . With his first book, Alex Majoli creates an intimate study of the psychiatric hospital located on the Greek island of Leros.“All I know about Leros is in this book. I know that this is another story about crazy people, many crazy people, more than 4,000 at first. I know that ‘Leros' means dirty and that they came to this island from all over Greece, chosen from among the worst cases, the ones they'd given up on in the psychiatric hospitals. I know that they were housed in an ex-military base on the island, which had previously been used as a jail for all political prisoners. I know that the islanders began working in the new psychiatric hospital. I know that soon Leros' story began to be associated with its psychiatric hospital and that the world knew nothing about it. For nearly 20 years, Leros was taken over for the purpose of housing mental patients. This book documents the severity of the conditions and treatment of the inmates; their daily lives both inside the hospital and outside it when they were freed in the 1990s upon closure of the hospital” (Alex Majoli). Book. Seller Inventory # bc_221210
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Book Description Condition: As New. First Edition, first impression, with printing line '10 987654321'. SIGNED on the title page by both Damien Hirst, in red, and Paul Fryer, in black. Publisher's black cloth with blind stamped lettering to spine and front board, black endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to both papers and original plastic dust-jackets. Square Octavo. pp. 168. The author's first collection of poetry, fully illustrated by Damien Hirst. A book in Fine condition in Fine dust-jackets. Seller Inventory # 101461
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