Polarityphoto
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PolarityPhoto
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24 creative works found
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Peeling paint and a fire door label in an abandoned mill in Norwich, CT.
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A label on the side of this staircase reads: “Avoid Injury: do not run and use handrails.” Abandoned Mill – Norwich, CT
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Numbered patient doors at Norwich State Hospital. Each door leads to a small room large enough for a bed and maybe a chair and nightstand (if staff deemed you safe enough to enjoy such luxuries). —-—-— / For more check out Polarity Photo / -—-—— 100+ Views as of 10.06.08. Thank you everyone!
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Two chairs soak up gray light in two patient day rooms on a dreary day at Norwich State Hospital. When the hospital was at its peak capacity, these rooms would have been packed with beds. Beds would have lined each wall and in some rooms there would be up to two rows in the middle of the room as well.
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Theatre seats decay in the campus theatre at Norwich State Hospital. During the hospital’s usage patients were wheeled through the tunnels which connected all the buildings on campus to the theatre where they say plays, movies and musicals.
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A wingback chair sits stubbornly fighting decay in a patient common room at an abandoned village style asylum in CT.
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A patient bathroom at a village style asylum built in 1904 basks in the afternoon glow. I wonder how many patients bathed in this tub, looking out the window dreaming of freedom. Some folks spent nearly their entire lives in institutions like this. 100+ views! Thanks everyone!
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Warm spring sun throws rays across a patient bed in a dayroom at a village style asylum in Connecticut. / At its peak this asylum had more than 100 buildings sprawling across over 900 acres serving more than 3,000 patients thus the name “One of Three Thousand”. Featured as the group icon for the group History for the months of April & March * 600 views! WOW! Thank you everyone! Tech: EOS 30D >> ISO 160 >> 18-55mm EF lens >> RAW format >> In camera noise reduction.
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The view from a broken window in a patient dayroom of another building adjacent. The building you can see is the primary building where VH1 altered a patient dorm building in line with what they thought people think of when they think Asylum. Then they used this building and the administration building to film two episodes of the show “Celebrity Paranormal Project”. Taken at an abandoned village style asylum in CT. / Built – 1904 / Fully Abandoned – 1990’s / Slowly decommissioned from the early 1970’s on. 100+ views! Thank you everyone!
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The locker room and employee wash room in an abandoned mill in Connecticut where the first motion picture with sound was filmed. I purposely left this frame dark. This is how it looks standing in the room. Sure I could have shot a long exposure and yes, you could have seen the lockers on the floors, or maybe you would be able to see the round community sink a little better but then you wouldn’t know what it feels like to walk down the stairs into this room. This factory has more windows than any other building i’d been in. Yet, the employee locker and wash room was pitch black with no windows. I hope you enjoy. EOS 30D – 18-55mm EFS lens – RAW format – ISO 160 – Exposed 15 seconds @ f/16 RedBubble spotlighted this photo as a “Featured Artwork” 5.23.08 / 100+ Views! Thank you everyone! / Thank you for the comments and feedback!
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This towering arms factory sprawls over 900,000 square feet. The main building was built in the 1860’s and features a massive shot tower that was used to gravity cool lead shot to be used in their cartridges. This factory produced ammo that was used in World Wars One and Two as well as the UK’s Boer War and many other conflicts as well as supplied the nation with the reliable munitions needed to hunt and supply food for their families in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. Early spring this year she suffered a fire that charred 1/4 of the main building. Now, copper thieves are gutting her insides piece by piece, machine by machine, organ by organ. It truly makes me sad to stand in the cemetery across the street from this factory, each tombstone marked around the same time that Remington was built or thriving. Many of her loyal employees rest in the shadow of her 13 story shot tower. So many souls toiled their whole lives behind her screaming machines, they gave their energy and their lives to this factory so that their life and the lives of their families could be better. Their hard work created the communities we now live in. These factories breathed life into the cities, brought workers to their streets and sparked electricity through their wires. Now as factories like this sit silently, loyally overlooking the skylines of countless cities as if they were enormous protectors, elder giants of the past looking over the lives of those nearby, they are forgotten, left to slowly crumble back to the earth. This is surely not my best. I did not know how to deal with what was racing through my head. I can’t wait to return and hopefully do her memory more justice. I love ya Remington. You’ll always be my first industrial love. You will always be the catalyst that showed me there was more to documenting history than shooting photos in the same asylums and hospitals that my colleagues shoot. We all owe giants of industry like Remington so much. Without them, the community you live in may have never existed. Entered into Stillness Speaks Monthly Competition for consideration in the category “I am still here, after all these years.”
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Located at Columbia University’s summer school of surveying and engineering. This bath house has seen far better days. Piles of mattresses spew their innards throughout the long structure. Lockers topple over into holes in the floor. Leaning awkwardly, as if peering over the edge before they make a suicidal leap. —-— / Featured in the group “Dimensions” 9.11.08 – Thank you! / -—— Check out Polarity Photography for more frames from abandoned structures! Thank you for the views, feel free to comment! / Stay happy healthy and stealthy everyone!
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A small decaying room with a bed. Now, the only thing that resting in this room is leaves and dust.
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Mattresses piled high between lockers in an abandoned bath house at the Columbia University Summer School of Surveying. What once provided a place of rest for students now provides bedding for squirrels. Isn’t it funny how things come full cycle?
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A gate at Yale University leading into a courtyard in Davenport College. Every door, every gate, every arch, every window… each and every fine detail at Yale is a feast for both the lens and the eyes. TECH INFO: / Camera: Canon EOS 30D / Lens: The Thrifty 50 [50mm f/1.8] / Format: RAW / ISO: 160 / Processing: Adobe Camera Raw 4.5 >> Photoshop CS3 —-—-— / More Information on the upcoming coffee table book (working title “The Yale Project”) from Polarity Photo to come soon! / -—-——
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Two chairs cough their insides across a day room at Hurricane Psychiatric Center in New York. Once a resting place for weary souls, these chairs are now themselves are weary and worn. Quietly. / Patiently. Gutted and nearly lifeless, they await another adventurous traveler to stop, relax and tarry a while; taking a deep breath and the time to absorb the history, the energy and feel the story they are so eager to share. To see more photos from abandoned buildings check out Polarity Photography Featured in the Red Bubble group Dimensions – 09.08 Featured in the Red Bubble group Stillness Speaks – 09.08 Featured in the Red Bubble group Rustic – 10.08 >>> 100+ Views as of 10.6.08! Thank you everyone! / Thanks for viewing, feel free to comment!
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Hurricane Psychiatric Center – Queens, New York [1910 – 1984] Every now and then, we find ourselves in darkness. Perhaps this image, then, is not too unfamiliar to everyone. / Standing in darkness, a single distant window glowing bright and a drape, fluttering the the breeze. Much like life, duality exists within this frame. / Darkness with just a window of hope. / / Rush for the window of hope, my friends. / Throw open the blinds of fear and let the light of positivity shine into your life. Or cast aside the wire grate of self restraint and dive right through that window into a bright world of possibility and something new! Never stop chasing dreams, friends, you never know which ones you’ll catch. To see more check out Polarity Photography Thanks for viewing, feel free to comment.
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Taken at Hurricane Psychiatric Center [1910-1984] New York, USA on a patient sun-porch in Building 25. Two dusty chairs defy the elements in the midst of Hurricane Hannah. What a metaphor. Sometimes, when the dark, soaking winds of chaos are whipping through your life, you just need someone there with you. Someone there to stand in the water next to you and tell you that everything is going to be just fine. Someone there with you to raise collective voices and to scream defiantly into the face of the hurricane and stand your ground together. What strength a person can derive from knowing that no matter what Nature may conjure, there’s always someone there with you, ankle deep and just as defiant as you are. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / To see more check out Polarity Photography Thanks for the views everyone! Feel free to comment! / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Featured in the RedBubble group Soul Mates on 9.14.08 Featured in the Redbubble group Mood & Ambiance on 01.14.09 / Thank you! 100+ views as of 01.11.09 – Thank you everyone!
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Hurricane Psychiatric Center’s half active building 25. This half of this ominous looking building still houses patients. The other half harbors the following: 1 schizophrenic hobo / 2 sun porches on either end of the ward / 4 floors of abandoned history / 12 inches of pigeon shit on the top floor / & / Countless reasons to spend an entire day wandering this abandoned beauty. >>>>> Featured in the RedBubble group Dimensions – 9.12.08 <<<<<
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Wallingford, Connecticut – USA / 6:15 am -10.08.08 A cool, crisp New England morning with rich reds and golds breaks over a steamy reservoir. To the left of the frame, ducks bob in the pond contemplating their winter destinations. Fall has arrived in New England. The colors are deep. The air is cool and still. And at 6am most of the residents of these quaint towns are still tucked in to their warm beds. What else do we all miss when we’re sleeping? Canon EOS 30d with 18-55mm kit lens @ ISO 400
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Bigelow Boiler Works & Pipe Bending – New Haven, CT A circular wooden jig used to make seals and collars for enormous boilers that fueled and heated nearly everything you can imagine leans against a wooden roof-access ladder in the attic of the Boiler Works Factory. These days, we use metal dies and jigs and probably 1/16th of the man power to accomplish similar feats. I have to say, the craftsmanship back then was more than just a trade, it was an art. Those days are now long gone. This building is the only remaining structure from the facility where Connecticut’s two african american regiments trained for the Civil War. After the war, a local tycoon bought the property from the government and demolished all the buildings except for the administration building which he retrofitted for his factory. Now this structure and the one across the street from 1910 are slated for demolition. The only thing keeping them from being bowled over right now is the fact that Yale University is keeping the deconstructed parts of it’s historic 1910 Adee Boathouse in one of the buildings. For more check out Polarity Photo *Thanks for the views everyone, feel free to comment!
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“The Wicked ‘Wich” – State Hospital for the Insane A solitary chair gathers the warm sunlight of an autumn afternoon in a famous sprawling New England asylum. It is frames like these that make hiding from state police in an attic for two and a half hours worthwhile. For more see Polarity Photo Thanks for the 150+ views. Feel free to comment.
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The Wicked ‘Wich – State Hospital for the Insane A classroom building with one single desk left behind. In the windows in the background, the seasons slide by as the interior of the building remains largely unchanged. Falls finest colors rage brightly outside while the elements slowly wash away the paint that gives color to the inside. For more check out Polarity Photo Thanks for the views. Feel free to comment!
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9 week old Chuck Norris is a Jack Russel. How freakin’ cute is he? Featured in the group 100% in 01.2009
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