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Before the Mugshot: Mid Victorian Asylum Photography
17th Sep, 2009
Before the Mugshot: Mid Victorian Asylum Photography
7.30 pm on 17th September 2009 at Surrey History Centre
This talk will focus on the extraordinary photographs taken by Henry Hering in the late 1850s of patients at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark. It will explore the use to which photography was put in the development of Victorian mental health treatment at hospitals such as Bethlem (as well as Springfield in Surrey) and attempt to place asylum photography in the context of mainstream photographic portraiture.
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Tickets £3. There are a limited number of places.
To book telephone: 01483 518737
Surrey History Centre 130 Goldsworth Road Woking, GU21 6ND
