Kings of Madness
A Journey Inside Kings Park State Psychiatric Hospital
by JR Washburn
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About the Book
Once the third-largest mental hospital in New York, the Kings Park Psychiatric Center has been abandoned since 1996. This massive facility, once home to ten thousand patients, has become a haunt of the ghosts of history.
Photographer J.R. Washburn takes the reader into a place rarely seen by the average person - into the heart of this abandoned asylum. Walk down the dusty corridors and sit in the decay-ridden rooms that once housed the patients and staff of Kings Park. These clear, haunting photographs show the facility as it is today. They show how the historical structure has given way to time and vandalism - how the place has begun to decay without any effort to preserve it.
Photographer J.R. Washburn takes the reader into a place rarely seen by the average person - into the heart of this abandoned asylum. Walk down the dusty corridors and sit in the decay-ridden rooms that once housed the patients and staff of Kings Park. These clear, haunting photographs show the facility as it is today. They show how the historical structure has given way to time and vandalism - how the place has begun to decay without any effort to preserve it.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
# of Pages: 120 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781364502553
- Publish Date: Jan 09, 2016
- Language English
- Keywords new york, history, architecture, abandoned, building, photography, art, hospital, mental
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About the Creator
Jonaya Riley Photography
Austin, TX
Jonaya Riley is a photographer who specializes in urban photography, including documenting abandoned architecture and modern urban environments. She began documenting urban decay and urban landscapes in 2009 with her work in Nassau, Bahamas and 2010 with her photographs of the abandoned Kings Park State Psychiatric Hospital in New York, now collected in the book Kings of Madness. Ever since, Jonaya has had a passion for exploring and visualizing the forgotten places of the world - places where time and nature have come to take back what humanity once carved out as our own.