Ward 81

Mary Ellen Mark

BOO 2518 U
€70,00
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CONDITION & NOTES
Used – Good / Exterior has shelf wear consisting of surface scratching, some minor creasing and light edge wear. Interior in Good – Very Good condition with a hint of edge discolouration and a few spots on the first and last page. Book has a slight "old-book-smell".

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

1979

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Fireside 28 x 20.5 x 1 cm
CONDITION
Used – Good / Exterior has shelf wear consisting of surface scratching, some minor creasing and light edge wear. Interior in Good – Very Good condition with a hint of edge discolouration and a few spots on the first and last page. Book has a slight "old-book-smell".

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
1979

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Fireside

DIMENSIONS
28 x 20.5 x 1 cm

ABOUT

Mary Ellen Mark first went to Oregon State Hospital (OSH), Salem, OR in 1974 to photograph the cast and set of Milos Forman‘s 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

 

During the filming, Mark met the women of Ward 81. She promised to return and after over a year of negotiations with the hospital authorities and families of residents she was allowed to live on Ward 81 with writer Karen Folger for 36 days.

 

Mark’s book was a breakthrough. Granted, photographs of Oregon State Hospital existed previously, but Mark’s work was a pioneer intimate portrait of an American group outside of the dream, outside of the reality.