Worcester State Hospital - Clock Tower : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Worcester State Hospital - Clock Tower / Svadilfari
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | According to KirkbrideBuildings.com:"This massive Kirkbride building was designed by the Worcester architect Ward P. Delano and completed in 1877 at the cost of well over a million dollars.Today the Worcester State Hospital Kirkbride is mostly gone. Severely damaged by fire in 1991, large sections of the building were torn down and only a few fragments remained standing. Even with Route 9, a large office park, and the current hospital site nearby, the abandoned building was a peaceful place. It must have been even more peaceful before the city grew up and around it. In spite of this peacefulness, the Kirkbride was somewhat ominous and foreboding. The building looked more like some weird castle or fortress than a hospital. It's odd to think that the parties involved felt this building would help create a calming or stabilizing influence.In his book The State and the Mentally Ill, Gerald Grob argues that the building actually resembles a prison and that this is not by chance. State asylums were becoming more custodial in nature when this Kirkbride was constructed. The belief that mental illness was highly curable was being seriously questioned and asylums were being built with a stronger focus on confinement rather than treatment." |
| 撮影日 | 2009-04-30 00:11:58 |
| 撮影者 | Svadilfari , Douglas, Massachusetts, USA |
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| カメラ | DSC-W80 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/1000) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.2 |