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Raymond Depardon
San Clemente psychiatric hospital, Town of Venice, Italy, 1979
"San Clemente psychiatric hospital, Town of Venice, Italy", 1979. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.
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Introduction
Taken between the late 1970s and early 1980s on the eponymous island in the Venetian lagoon, this photograph transcends mere reportage to become a philosophical and phenomenological investigation into the institutionalisation of psychological suffering.
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