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Captured: The Ruins of Detroit | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post

Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

Posted Feb 07, 2011

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    Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.

    From the photographers’ website:

    Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.

    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. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.

    Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Michigan Central Station #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Atrium, Farwell Building #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    United Artists Theater #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Ballroom, American Hotel #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Donovan Building #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Piano, Saint Albertus School #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911 #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Classroom, St Margaret Mary School #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    St Christopher House, ex-Public Library #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Packard Motors Plant #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    East Methodist Church #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Offices, Highland Park Police Station #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s #

    Captured: The Ruins of Detroit

    Packard Motors Plant #

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