Once I hated hospitals. My wife, Dorothea, spent years in and out of a cancer hospital. She died in a hospital. I came to Denver General Hospital in Colorado the first time because I needed work, any work. A magazine assigned me to report on what goes on in a ‘typical’ emergency room. So I began…
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‘The ‘War Zone’ in Philadelphia is just north of the centre, about a mile and a half from City Hall and across the Street from Temple University.’
From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard's portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.
‘We women, how in the dark we are about our bodies and what can happen to them. We ask in whispers in the corner at a party or on the telephone, what does a breast lump feel like? What does cancer look like? Will I be all right?’
‘Is there in fact a jostling for dominance between the art forms, some barely suppressed competitiveness?’
Adam Mars-Jones on music and ceremony.
‘It was / a line that signaled absolute forgetting / and it made me want to weep into my drink’
