Chris Payne photos in Architectural Record

[Antonio Corcuera]

Architectural Record's April issue includes an article on Chris Payne's work on NY hospitals. You can check it online too - Archrecord2

[luis a de santos]

Thank you very much for this information Antonio.
These are lovely images but I am partial to this kind of work.
There is something in these old abandoned buildings that is attractive and luring, perhaps
the old voices and past lives that you can imagine by looking at those wall.
Chris is in good company and many excellent photographers have been attracted to the same theme with different degrees of success.

Luis

[Brian Vuillemenot]

Wow, that's cool stuff- and one of those insane asylums is actually in the town I grew up in in Connecticut!

[Michael Jones]

Thanks for the post. That is very nice work.

Mike

[Jim Galli]

Thank you! These images are humbling. I immediately went and bought the book.

[Brian Ellis]

Jim - Is there any text in the book? The photographs were great, it would be interesting to know more about the hospitals. St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C. which is included in the web site, was used in a common put down of one kid by another kid when I was growing up in D. C., something along the lines of "Shut up stupid, when did they let you out of St. Elizabeth's?" Kids were so sensitive back then.

[Antonio Corcuera]

Brian, I guess the book Jim talks about is Chris Payne's previous project: "New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002). According to the Archrecord article, the book on hospitals & asylums has not been released yet. I look forward to it and, as you mention, do hope it has text aside from the necessary photograph explanations (for example, the caption makes the toothbrush image much more powerful).
best,

[Brian Ellis]

Hi Antonio - That's what I thought too but when Jim said "the images" were great and so he "immediately went and bought the book" that seemed pretty clear he wasn't talking about any book other than the one that contained "the images." So I figured the article was written a while back and only just now publixhed or for some other reason was a little out of date. Maybe Jim could chime in here and let us know exactly what book he bought and if it's the book that contains the images on the web site, where he bought it.