As Detroit's white middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.
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As Detroit's white middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.
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Very Good. No Jacket As Issued. Until the 1960s, Detroit was one of America's most important cities, a hub of industry with a population of almost two million and a skyline to rival that of any U.S. city. Its buildings were monuments to its success and vitality in the first half of the twentieth century. At the start of the twenty-first century, those same monuments are now ruins: the United Artists Theater, the Whitney Building, the Farwell Building and the once ravishing Michigan Central Station (unused since 1988) today look as if a bomb had dropped on Motor City, leaving behind the ruins of a once great civilization. In a series of weekly photographic bulletins for Time magazine called 'Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline, ' photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have been revealing to an astonished America the scale of decay in Detroit. 'The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires, ' write Marchand and Meffre. 'Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state. ' As Detroit's white middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs. As Detroit's white middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.
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Add this copy of Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre: the Ruins of Detroit to cart. $350.00, very good condition, Sold by Half Moon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Steidl.
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Collectable-Very Good Condition. 9783869300429. Individual Photographers. VG+ 1st ed 2010 Steidl hardback, landscape format, high quality production. Light shelf-wear along edges of spine, strip of glue residue to inside front edge of binding from production process, otherwise fine and bright. Size: 14.5 x 1.1 x 11.5 inches. 230 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; Individual Photographers; ISBN: 3869300426. ISBN/EAN: 9783869300429. Dewey Code: 779.477434. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 087724.
