Isolation Chamber Vacation

An exploration of cultural and artistic representations of solitude, Isolation Chamber Vacation Part 2 opens 22nd April 2017 at The Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

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The Bakersfield Californian, California, July 25, 1925

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André Kertész, Isolation Party

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les nuits de la pleine lune (éric rohmer, 1984)

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One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)

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Masculin Feminin (1966) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Some of Wim Wenders photographs of America. 

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Picturing Paris, Texas: A New Volume Collects Wim Wenders's Photographs of the Town Behind the Film

An updated version of the photographs Wim Wenders made while scouting locations for his influential 1984 film Paris, Texas, includes previously unpublished images.

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Buried Alive: Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

It is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul. It is outrageously expensive. It doesn't work. And this is what solitary confinement feels like, from 35 prisoners who have lived through it.

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The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness. - The Boston Globe

As men grow older, they tend to let their friendships lapse. But there’s still time to do something about it.

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The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time

It’s essential for strategic thinking.

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Loneliness actually hurts us on a cellular level

A scientist explains how the pain of loneliness makes us sick.

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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre (via fyp-philosophy)

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Half a million older people spend every day alone, poll shows

Scale of loneliness among over-60s revealed as Age UK develops scheme to provide support and companionship

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Why I am not going to buy a cellphone – Philip Reed | Aeon Ideas

It is mildly subversive and perhaps a little quaint when someone clings to their flip phone and refuses a smartphone. Refusing both kinds of phones is viewed as downright lunacy, especially if the person refusing was born after the mid-1970s. But ...

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10 great films about loneliness

As a restored version of Taxi Driver pulls into cinemas nationwide, we revisit the story of ‘God’s lonely man’ and 10 other classic films about loneliness.