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Michael Alexander
{K:5293} 1/13/2005
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Brad, this is the best of the series. I remember seeing the old records left behind in the institution I explored around as a teenager. Personal information left behind to rot. If I remember correctly, it was the Reagan administration that stopped the funding on mental health and moved it into the correctional facilities. It?s like these places lost their funding and let everyone go out to fend for themselves, Patients and staff. No one even cared, they just walked away. Leaving all the documents to rot, the building to rot, everything to just rot and blow away. And I?m talking a lot of records, from the patients to the staff to the books in the library.. Boiler room temperatures and pressures? everything.... it was? disturbing. I?ve enjoyed looking at your series; obviously, I?m very moved by your work. I have to comment on the rest of it but unfortunately, I?m crazy tired. I?ll go to sleep tonight dreaming of my teenage explorations of the place I used to visit.
~Mike
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Kessia & Morgan UVA
{K:7265} 11/22/2004
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everything about this photo leaves a quiet, solemn, painful empathetic ache in my heart for Gus. for anyone in that place. for anyone in those places now. the folded corner, black and white, dof--all very powerful. nice work.
morgan
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Jon O'Brien
{K:11321} 9/22/2004
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A sad story. I'm shocked that patient files are scattered about in an abandoned building. They're not even OLD patient files. 1977 - it's hardly even yesterday when it comes to personal data. Commonly health records are closed for 90 years, or death +50, or permanently. To find them left strewn about... ya gotta figure that these people are probably still alive.
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Steve Rosenbach
{K:8338} 8/14/2004
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Hi Brad,
I agree with Rhonda - you should seriously think about working this series of photos into a book.
Best regards,
SteveR
P.S. - aren't we overdue for a Central Maryland Usefilm-ers Night Out?? You, me, Dan, Lou Dina, and the others?....
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michelle k.
{K:16270} 8/13/2004
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holy crap. you really hit platinum levels with this series, prue. it's freakin awesome.
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Dan Lightner
{K:12684} 8/11/2004
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This is very cool image Brad.Well documented.
Dan
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Ursula Luschnig
{K:21723} 8/11/2004
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Hi Brad,this paper is unbelievable sad,and that you found it..and more..just lieing there like garbage,is just showing such a contempt for mankind. I think,the idea of making a book of this series,that Ronda Prince suggested,is very good,and makes sense for you personal.
Take care,Ursula
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Bradley Prue
{K:30678} 8/11/2004
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thank you all, for your thoughtful comments.
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Peggy Christine Skinner
{K:26936} 8/11/2004
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I find it absolutely amazing and incomprehensible that the files of these poor lost souls were left behind like this. Not even gathered together and put in a box. Just flung aside. This has been a heart wrenching and thought provoking series Brad.
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Carlheinz Bayer
{K:14220} 8/11/2004
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Poor guys!!! A lot to think about...
C.
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Stephen Bowden
{K:64141} 8/10/2004
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Incredible Brad, it does make you shudder and think !
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Samantha Lightner
{K:698} 8/10/2004
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i agree about the book. I also think that the fact that the history of these peoples lives are just left to blow around in an abandoned building that anyone can go in is very sad. it makes you wonder are they in another institution or dead, or what???? obviously the state doesn't care much about the buildings or the people that were treated there, if you can call it "treatment".... this really should be published and i have to say you sure can write Brad.
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 8/10/2004
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This whole series should be a book you know!
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Suzi Q.
{K:426} 8/10/2004
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You have very Interesting Portfolios.
I love your Asylum series. Its very spooky to think of what sort of stuff went in there. I wonder where are those people.
Very nice work. :)
Lady D.
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Thilo Bayer
{K:50358} 8/10/2004
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Dear Bradley,
uhh... that's scary stuff. it makes me sad somehow, but it's great that someone like you keeps this account known for the future.
thanks!
take care,
Thilo
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karen clarke
{K:18893} 8/10/2004
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It really gives you a sense of the people and happening that went on in there. I believe that back then, and I am sure even now, that they are often mistreated-how are they going to tell anyone? who would believe them anyway? Though you will never know if he did lie or not-its rather thought provoking. It is rather sad when you think about how little control these people had over what happened to them. Esp. when faced with those that just say-he's crazy just lock him up and throw away the key. This really makes me have a sense about the doctor himself-so cold and unfeeling-everything is just routine, and he seems to think that these people had no feelings. Though I am sure that their jobs weren't all that easy, and perhaps in a place such as this, they too probably went a bit crazy.
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