City Of Incurable Women - Laura Larson LB - BOOKS

City Of Incurable Women - Laura Larson LB - BOOKSDe la pgina de la editorial: City of Incurable Women pictures the complex lives of the 19th century women, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who were hospitalized at the Piti Salptrire Hospital in Paris. Incorporating a broad range of materials, Larson layers archival imagery with her own photographs and texts, speculating through the documented accounts of the womens illness. Larson imagines the women as a collective, making a claim for their

They speak from the endlessly renewed place of the photographic expeditioner who loves the world and knows it’s a well that never runs dry

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weaves together several of its ramifications: installation views

From 1992 to 1995 Ron Jude photographed American businessmen in the financial districts of Atlanta

we see that what’s not entirely comprehended is far more compelling than what is well understood

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but it’s one that is rejuvenated and refreshed by each new and peculiar telling

The pictures move along the confrontation lines between the man-made and the natural