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Abandoned Asylums

Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America`s abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the
Insane that was the scene for some of America`s very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.

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Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America`s abandoned state hospitals, asylums, & psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories & personal dramas played out behind locked doors & out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting & emotive. A sad & tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant & forgotten as their futures are uncertain & threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe & other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America`s very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution & subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, & sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.

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