It’s been a full year since we’ve first pointed you to Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s fantastic photographs from the ruins of Detroit. About two weeks ago the british Guardian ran a great story about their work and their book “The Ruins of Detroit”
(amazon affiliate link), including an image gallery with a number of photos that haven’t been seen online before. You should check them out!
Today the german Spiegel Online also has a lengthy article on Detroit’s major architect Alber Kahn with even more photos by Marchand and Meffre.
These are absolutely worth reading and especially seeing! Beautiful photographs that hint at numerous and unfortunately sad stories from the urban America of the 20th century.
Auf die fantastischen Fotos von Yves Marchand und Romain Meffre aus den Ruinen von Detroit haben wir Euch schonmal vor ziemlich genau einem Jahr hingewiesen. Der Guardian hatte vor 14 Tagen einen tollen Artikel über ihre Arbeit und ihr Buch \"The Ruins of Detroit\" (Amazon Affiliate Link). Zum Artikel gibts auch eine Bildergalerie ...
Wow! The Denver Post put together an amazing set of color photographs taken between 1939 and 1943 in post-depression era America. Some of the only color pictures that take a close look at the effect of the Great Depression on rural America. Color photos from times long ago are a treat anyway, but these ones are even more special. They’ve been taken from the archives of the Library of Congress, in particular from the color set of the 1930s to 1940s. Head on over to flickr to browse through them for yourself, but be warned, it’s a whopping 1,615 photos in this set alone.
Wow! Die Denver Post hat eine tolle Fotosammlung mit Farbbildern aus der Zeit von 1939 bis 1943 zusammengestellt, die vor allem die Auswirkungen der Großen Depressionen auf das ländliche Amerika festhalten. Farbfotos aus längst vergangenen Zeiten sind allein schon super, aber die hier sind nochmal ganz besonders toll. Und stammen allesamt aus dem Archiv ...
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South Haven Light, South Haven, MI
At age 18, Mike Brodie took his Polaroid camera and began exploring the US by train. On his three year voyage he saw a part of America that can hardly be further away from what normally inflates our collective memory of US pop culture or tourist hearsay. It’s the world of vagabonds, hobos and freighthoppers. Brodie calls it “travel culture” and he came home with hundreds of amazing Polaroid pictures of an alternative American way of life between track beds and freight depots. He became known as the Polaroid Kidd, and his photographs can be seen at exhibitions all over the world.
Needles & Pens has an online collection of his pictures here and here, there are more at Arteven, and DryInk Mag did an interview with The Polaroid Kidd.
Mike Brodie hat sich mit 18 Jahren und einer Polaroid Kamera im Gepäck aufgemacht, die USA per Zug zu erkunden. Auf seinem rund dreijährigen Trip hat er eine Seite von Amerika kennengelernt, die kaum weiter vom allgemeinen Popkulturverständnis und den Touristenpfaden entfernt sein kann. Es ist die Welt von Vagabunden, Obdachlosen und v.a. schwarzfahrenden ...
Keith Davis Young is a young designer and photographer from Austin, TX, and I just finished clicking through his flickr set bearing the rather inconspicous title 35mm. I had starry eyes. He captured a fantastic set of impressions and fragments of daily life. RVs, parking lots, diners and restaurants, people, furniture, all kinds of moods. Go take a look!
Keith Davis Young ist ein junger Fotograf und Designer aus Austin, Texas, und ich habe mich gerade mit glänzenden Augen durch sein Flickr-Set mit dem eher unscheinbaren Titel 35mm geklickt. Fantastische Impressionen und Fragmente des alltäglichen Lebens hat er da eingefangen. Wohnmobile, Parkplätze, Diners und Restaurants, Menschen, Möbel, Stimmungen. Gleich anschauen gehen!Keith Davis Young ...
Although Jack Ambrigde’s photos were shot in Great Britain rather than the US, we are still going to post ‘em here. Let’s just say for inspirational reasons, since we will also utilize tilt shift photography – which is responsible for the awesome miniature effect in Ambridge’s pictures – during the shooting of THE AMERICAN BACKROOM. Keep up the amazing work, Jack! View more in his Behance portfolio…
BTW, we are currently finishing up a little tilt shift test video we shot during our research trip. It will probably go online within the next ten days! Check back soon or join our mailing list so we can keep you posted.
Zugegeben, Jack Ambrigdes Fotos sind in Großbritannien entstanden, nicht in den USA, aber weil wir die Tilt Shift-Technik - eben jenes Verfahren, das für den speziellen Miniatureffekt in seinen Bildern sorgt - stellenweise auch im Film AMERICAN BACKROOM einsetzen werden, lassen wir seine Bilder unter dem Stichwort Inspiration laufen und kleben sie uns hiermit ...
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