I'm Not Crazy I Just Lost My Glasses Author:Lonny Shavelson Shavelson, a photographer with a compassionate spirit and an acute sense of social observation, has attempted to go beyond the clinical euphemisms, to penetrate the abstract phenomenon of mental illness, and to look unflinchingly in the human face of madness. Shavelson?s method is simple, straightforward, and powerful in its impact. He photograp... more »hed each subject in stark, sometimes harrowing, always evocative black-and-white portraiture. Shavelson allows each man and woman to tell us something intimate and unguarded about the reality of mental illness. In the most literal sense, then, these mentally disturbed men and women speak for themselves.
The book is a compelling one; Shavelson has aspired to create a work of art and social science, and he succeeds at both enterprises.« less