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11-07-2012, 12:58 PM
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Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
Photographers Ian Ference and Katherine Westerhout documented abandoned institutional and industrial buildings across the United States between 1998 and 2009. Ference contributed 11 photographs, including interiors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, Taunton State Hospital, Creedmoor State Hospital, Trenton State Hospital, Buffalo State Hospital and Fort Totten Army Hospital. Westerhout contributed 14 photographs from psychiatric facilities, factories, a prison and a church. Her locations include Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, Spaulding Fibre in Tonawanda, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and a Protestant church in Detroit. The photographs show empty wards and corridors, flooded floors, abandoned furniture, industrial equipment, prison cells and architectural remnants. The earliest photograph was taken in San Francisco in 1998, and the latest photographs date from 2009.                          |
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11-07-2012, 04:00 PM
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Re: Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
weird to abandon a church and leave everything in it. Great images. |
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11-07-2012, 04:10 PM
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Re: Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
I wouldn't exactly call all of them 'Bone Chilling', but they're well cool.  |
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11-07-2012, 04:40 PM
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Re: Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
Title that came with the pics where i found them.
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11-07-2012, 07:07 PM
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Re: Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
Amazing. I can actually picture somebody sitting in that chair lookin out the window and trying to make sense of the world they were living in. Probably long dead now and its just begs the question what IS it all about?? Anyway great pics |
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11-08-2012, 05:46 PM
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Re: Abandoned US Asylums and Industrial Sites by Ference and Westerhout, 1998-2009
Did you see the movie, Born on the 4th of July? The young soldier, in the Vets hospital, with no arms and legs, just sitting, staring out of the window. Just a brief glimpse of him as the camera passes by, but the look on his face tells you all you need to know about him and his future.  |
