폐허화 되어가는 도시 디트로이트: The Ruins of Detroit

The Ruins of Detroit

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.

1

William Livingstone House 

2

Michigan Central Station 

3

Woodward Avenue 

4

Atrium, Farwell Building 

5

18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower 

6

Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit 

7

David Whitney Building 

8

United Artists Theater 

9

Fort Shelby Hotel 

10

Ballroom, American Hotel 

11

Melted clock, Cass Technical High School 

12

Donovan Building 

Detroit: Downtown Then and Now,

13

Old First Unitarian Church 

14

Piano, Saint Albertus School 

15

Luben Apartments 

16

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

17

Rich-Dex Apartments 

18

Classroom, St Margaret Mary School 

19

Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School 

20

St Christopher House, ex-Public Library 

21

Fisher Body 21 Plant 

22

Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel 

23

Detroit?s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here. 

World's Biggest GHETTO !!!!!

24

Packard Motors Plant 

25

Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station 

26

East Methodist Church 

27

East Side Public Library 

28

Offices, Highland Park Police Station 

So Bad - Detroit in Ruins

29

Biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park 

30

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 

31

Michigan Theatre 

32

Packard Motors Plant