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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. Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world and integration into island society. Thirty years ago, in the balmy Aegean blue, the island of Leros was commandeered for a social experiment that was to become a secret so terrible as to rival that of the Nazi death camps or the Stalinist gulags. When the Greek psychiatric medical establishment reached the end of their perfunctorily useful treatment of their patients they sent them to Leros, and the asylum set up in the former political prison there. The staff were not doctors or nurses and had no medical training, other than herding goats. They were local islanders, and were used as guards, or filaks. The guards quickly degenerated into thugs, who sought to control the madmen with the only methods available to them - brute force and terror. The inmates were systematically beaten, even tortured, and crushed of whatever sensibilities they once had. They became animals, who defecated where they stood or crawled, who fought and killed themselves or each other, according to their needs, in a veritable Golgotha of despair, filth and violence. No human traits were recognisable among the inmates: even speech had become redundant. In 1990 a team of Italian psychiatrists from Trieste, aided by volunteer care workers, managed to break down the walls of this madhouse. What they found shocked even them, as did the blank indifference of the guards. How else should they behave in a world deprived of reason?
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Alex Majoli, born 1971 in Ravenna, Italy, joined the f45 studio in his native city, working alongside Daniele Casadio when 15 years old. He has been a member of the photographic agency Magnum since 2001. He lives and works in Milan and New York. His first book was Leros (Trolley, 2003).
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- EditoreTrolley Books
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0954207920
- ISBN 13 9780954207922
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine112
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 163 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Black And In Blind, Black Endpapers. First Printing, 2002. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Codice articolo 052610
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Descrizione libro 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. Codice articolo 177240
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Some minor wear around edge of dust cover. Codice articolo ABE-1629297297597
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Descrizione libro hardcover. Condizione: 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. Codice articolo bc_221210
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Descrizione libro Condizione: 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. Codice articolo 101461
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