Raymond Depardon’s inside Look at Italian Insane Asylums before Their Demise – Feature Shoot

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Raymond Depardon’s Inside Look at Italian Insane Asylums Before Their Demise – Feature Shoot

The ways in which society at large deals with the afflicted is often horrifying, with stories of terrible treatment not yet relegated to the past. Paris-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Raymond Depardon’s Manicomio (lunatic asylum) is an arresti

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Paris-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Raymond Depardon‘s Manicomio (lunatic asylum) is an arresting body of work depicting the inside of Italian asylums from 1977-1981 during and after the law of 1978 that closed all asylums, recently published by Steidl