2011
DOI: 10.16995/ntn.625
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The City of Others: Photographs from the City of London Asylum Archive

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“…Stef Eastoe's (2020) investigation of the casebook photographs of the Caterham Asylum reveals how they offer insights into the asylum's material culture and the experiences of the patients. Caroline Bressey (2011) underscores the casebook photographs of the City of London Asylum as providing an important resource in exploring the life stories of people of colour in the United Kingdom. Susan Sidlauskas (2013) focuses her interest on the casebook photographs of Holloway Sanatorium, c. 1885-1889, to explore how the female patients posed for their photographs as an act of agency.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Stef Eastoe's (2020) investigation of the casebook photographs of the Caterham Asylum reveals how they offer insights into the asylum's material culture and the experiences of the patients. Caroline Bressey (2011) underscores the casebook photographs of the City of London Asylum as providing an important resource in exploring the life stories of people of colour in the United Kingdom. Susan Sidlauskas (2013) focuses her interest on the casebook photographs of Holloway Sanatorium, c. 1885-1889, to explore how the female patients posed for their photographs as an act of agency.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rory du Plessis is keen to emphasise the range of meanings of a patient photograph, arguing they are not only a record of clinical cases, but representations of individuals 33. Caroline Bressey uses photographic archives from the City of London Asylum as evidence to reintegrate the history of people of colour into the history of London 34. Furthermore, other studies have highlighted that psychiatric photography was practised not just in Britain but in many diverse locations, as Octavian Buda's history of psychiatric photography in Romania reveals 35.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In the interpretation of casebook photographs, we are thus implored to appreciate the 'individuality' (Brookes 2011:50) and 'humanity' (Brookes 2011:55) of the sitters rather than "see" a record of a clinical case. For Caroline Bressey (2011), in her study of the City of London Asylum, the casebooks proved to be a valuable resource for containing a visible record of individuals who are underrepresented in archive records, as well as for providing 'biographies … that … would otherwise be very difficult, if not impossible, to trace'. To this end, the casebooks contain fragments of an individual's life story that 'have an important role to play in developing our understandings of the lives of others in the long nineteenth century' (Bressey 2011:13).…”
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