Tom Wood: The Dpa Work

by Tom Wood

Beginning in 1985 the Manchester-based Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) commissioned photographers to record aspects of British society in the north of England. Tom Wood's The DPA Work explores the life and demise of two major institutions near Liverpool, Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital and Cammell Laird shipyard. Opened in 1851 as a lunatic asylum for long-term patients, by 1936 Rainhill was the largest hospital complex in Europe. Wood began photographing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3958293476
• ISBN13: 9783958293472
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Steidl/University of Chester
• Length: 424 Pages