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 ...
American Ruins in 3D! That sounds almost like a scene from THE AMERICAN BACKROOM… or rather like a photo project by Matt Bergstrom. He’s creating three View-Master Sets of abandoned buildings in decay.
“American Ruins” is a three-dimensional, photographic series exploring unusual, abandoned buildings — like a candy factory! — to be viewed on an old-fashioned View-Master. Both an exploration of architectural history and a fun throwback to childhood, backers will receive their very own View-Master viewer and a complete set of reels!
Matt needs a little financial support to get things started so he launched his project on Kickstarter: American Ruins in 3D! How cool is that. Definitely worth our support. Click the image below to check it out:
Amerikanische Ruinen in 3D! Das klingt ja fast wie die eine oder andere Szene aus THE AMERICAN BACKROOM... oder wie das Fotoprojekt von Matt Bergstrom. Der plant nämlich, drei View-Master Sets von verlassenen bzw. verfallenen Gebäuden in 3D zu produzieren. Der View-Master ist ein tragbares Bildbetrachtungsgerät für stereoskopische Dias, die auf einer rotierenden Scheibe ...
Post-apocalyptic movies like “I am Legend” use special effects worth millions of dollars to create worlds that have long become part of reality in Detroit. In the ruins of Motown Yves Marchand und Romain Meffre, photographers from Paris, France, have found monuments they compare to the pyramids of Gizeh, the Colliseum in Rome or the Akropolis in Athens. The result of their photography is creepy and beautiful at the same time and provides us with another set of insights into an America that can rarely or never be seen.
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.
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Endzeitfilme wie \"I am Legend\" brauchen millionenteure Special Effects, um Welten zu erschaffen, die in Detroit längst Alltag sind. Die Pariser Fotographen Yves Marchand und Romain Meffre finden im Untergang von Motown vergleichbare Monumente wie die Pyramiden von Gizeh, das Colloseum oder die Akropolis. Das Ergebnis ist gleichermaßen schön wie beängstigend und liefert nochmals ...
All morning I’ve been browsing through vintage color photos taken by Charles Cushman on his travels across the United States in the middle of the 20th century. Cushman took pictures of all sorts of things, but mostly he captured everyday scenes and street life in the forties and fifties. Wow! I could look at those all day. The picture above shows San Francisco in 1962, viewed north-east from Fairmont Hotel. Below it’s Halloween ’52 in Central City, CO (left) and Chicago, IL, 1945:
Thanks to Indiana University you can browse the complete Cushman Collection online, including all 11,374 pictures he took in the US!
Weed, CA, 1954 (left) and New York City, 1941:
Virginia City, NV and Los Angeles, CA, 1952:
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Ich klicke mich schon den ganzen Morgen durch die Farbfotos, die Charles Cushman in der Mitte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts auf seinen Reisen quer durch die USA geschossen hat. Cushman hat alles mögliche festgehalten, aber vor allem Alltagsmomente und Street Life in den vierziger und fünfziger Jahren. Wahnsinn, kann mich gar nicht sattsehen. Das da ...
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