The Phantom Sanatorium: Beelitz Heilstätten
Lupton, Catherine Built in 1898 to treat victims of tuberculosis from the fast-expanding and overcrowded German capital, the vast sanatorium-turned-military hospital of Beelitz Heilstÿetten outside of Berlin is now a site of compulsive, obsessive pilgrimage for urban explorers and photographers, ghost hunters, and intrepid pornographers. In The Phantom Sanatorium, over sixty photographs and an accompanying exploratory text by Catherine Lupton capture glimpses o...