I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair

"Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."--Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to ProzacA tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black-and-white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving personal narratives to form an eloquent ensemble of tragedy and hope in the struggle to cope with mental illness.Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University.

• | Author: Charlee Brodsky
• | Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 193413709X
• | ISBN-13: 9781934137093