Les Fabuleuses Ruines de Detroit
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Our society once erected singular and surprising buildings in all domains, including industry. Many cities keep traces of this glorious past but despite a seeming awakening towards the architectural inheritance of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, numerous unexpected monuments are today on the way to rot or, the worth, being destroyed. Since some years, perpetual demolitions led us to make pictures, a way to keep a little bit of this vanishing history.
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre from France are masters of wide-angular color interior photography, and Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture is their theme.
Recently they went to Detroit, and what they have found knocks your socks off - so much that the photos are now on show in Paris: Les Fabuleuses Ruines de Detroit - An exhibition related to Motown's forgotten monuments at the Galerie Kennory Kim, featuring enthrallments like the United Artists Theater.
22, Rue des Vertus, 75 003 Paris, France
Now until July, 8
1400 - 2030 o'clock, Tuesdays through Saturdays
Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture →
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New Category: The Others
Unsurprisingly, I am not the only one taking and publishing photos of industrial sites and landscapes. There are many other, and many do much better than I do. The Others is a new loose series on this blog in which I will showcase the sites of photographers I know and value. Some are close photo friends, some are more distant contacts - and in any case, their sites are entertaining and educating to see.
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