Finding that look
Maria Grazia Giannichedda
In the early '70s, the psychiatric hospital in Sassari, as many Italians of asylums 'era, it was a terrible place but full of new ideas, experiences generous, hopes and prospects. After the hard strike of nurses in the winter of '72, with titles Espresso "Sassari, the Snake Pit" and the visit of Mark Levy MD, the Province of Sassari had initiated a kind of twinning with one in Trieste, Basaglia where he worked and where they had gone for periods of training groups of doctors and nurses. The innovations begin to be encouraged and despite opposition, resistance and fears that came from above, quickly changed many things and the wall that divided the city to the insane asylum from Sassari began to crack. At parties, exhibitions, concerts that were attended by many people to Rizzeddu, conferences on alternatives to mental hospital there was only one operator, the medical directors and administrators said they support change.
looking for, the students of the Laboratory citizenship, witnesses and documents of those years. When it emerged the look of the unnamed French photographer, his photos and their story has fascinated everyone, but we have also recently delivered two tasks do not. One, perhaps the easiest, is to find the name of the photographer, his history and himself. The other is to find the look that one section of society, but far from certain minority irrelevant, sent to the asylum for many years and its symptoms, fueled by players who wanted to change. Today in danger of no longer being able to recognize those symptoms, or perhaps look elsewhere for convenience or desperation. 
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