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 ...
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 ...
We’re lost. Somewhere between Santa Fe and… well, practically nothing (apart from the border of Utah maybe). We took one wrong turn and rolled on and on for about an hour and a half before we even knew we were no longer on our route. There’s shrubbery everywhere. As far as the eye can see. At least as far as the snow-covered mountains we can make out on the horizon. Shrubbery anyway. There’s no better way to express it. For half an eternity we feel we’re driving along shrubbery. There’s not much forest in the Carson National Forest, as far as we can tell.
We end up in El Rito. Long before we see the first buildings we can see the single white letter “E” painted on a mountain side in the distance. At first glance El Rito has not much to offer than a long winding main street with traditional adobe buildings lined up to the right and left. We make a stop at El Llano Bar. There are two vintage gas pumps in front of it that are – let’s say – in an advanced state of decay. The sign above the door is a little too big and the rivets that keep it in place are amazingly irregularly placed on the wall. It is crooked. At first glance one might take the rivets for bullet holes. They are not. Just rivets.
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Wir haben uns verfahren. Irgendwo zwischen Santa Fe und… ja, praktisch Nichts, wenn man mal von der Grenze zu Utah absieht. Einmal falsch abgebogen, rollen wir seelenruhig eineinhalb Stunden weiter, bevor wir überhaupt merken, dass wir gar nicht mehr auf unserer Route sind. Rechts und links Gestrüpp. So weit das Auge reicht. Zumindest bis ...
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