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March 2012

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their...”

– Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Ward 81 by Mary Ellen Mark. →

“In 1975, photographer Mary Ellen Mark was assigned by a magazine to do a story on the making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While there, she met, briefly, the women of Ward 81. Ward 81 is the women’s security ward of the hospital, the only locked ward for women in the state. The women on this ward are...