Signed; Alex Majoli - Leros - 2002

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Alex Majoli in silver marker (born 1971), unique and untraceable as a signed copy on the internet and extremely rare as an unsigned copy. 140 pages and 60 photographs, almost all full-page, recto only with captions on the facing page. Texts in English by Laura Facchi, Maurizio Costantino (caregiver), and a letter from a group of Italian psychiatrists from Franco Basaglia’s hospital in Trieste. Solid black hardcover stamped debossed, and a dust jacket printed in the same way with an additional inscription “You survided.” In excellent condition, practically as new.

This collection of photographs taken by Alex Majoli during five stays in a psychiatric hospital on the Greek island of Leros between January 1994 and March 1995 is striking. Alex Majoli offers an intimate study of the psychiatric hospital located on the Greek island of Leros. Everything I know about Leros is in this book. I know it’s another story about the insane, many of them, more than 4,000 at the start. I know that “Leros” means “dirty,” and that they arrived on this island from all over Greece, chosen from among the most serious cases, those hospitals had abandoned. I know they were housed in an old military base on the island that had previously served as a prison for political prisoners. I know the locals began working in the new psychiatric hospital. I know that soon, the history of Leros became linked to its psychiatric hospital, and the world knew nothing about this establishment. For nearly 20 years, Leros was requisitioned to house mentally ill patients. This book documents the severity of living conditions and the treatments inflicted on the patients—their daily life inside and outside the hospital when they were released in the 1990s upon the hospital’s closure. (Alex Majoli).

Copy in excellent condition, practically as new. A book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care. Protected shipping with reinforced packaging and international tracking guaranteed. For multiple purchases, possibility of combined shipping with reimbursement of excess postage paid via PayPal.

0.7 kg without packaging.