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Detroit in ruins
Jan. 4th, 2011 09:48 amDetroit in Ruins.
A seriously creepy look at what looks disturbingly like post-zombie-attack Detroit.
The story behind the photos.
I think if I were a low budget American filmmaker, I would be definitely heading to Detroit to make my post-apocalyptic film. Who needs big sets when you can use this stuff for free?
The Ruins of Detroit tells the city's story so far in one starkly beautiful photograph after another, all of which add up to nothing less than an end-of-empire narrative. Or as Sugrue puts it: "The abandoned factories, the eerily vacant schools, the rotting houses, and gutted skyscrapers that Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre chronicle are the artefacts of Detroit's astonishing rise as a global capital of capitalism and its even more extraordinary descent into ruin, a place where the boundaries between the American dream and the American nightmare, between prosperity and poverty, between the permanent and the ephemeral are powerfully and painfully visible. No place epitomises the creative and destructive forces of modernity more than Detroit, past and present."
A seriously creepy look at what looks disturbingly like post-zombie-attack Detroit.
The story behind the photos.
I think if I were a low budget American filmmaker, I would be definitely heading to Detroit to make my post-apocalyptic film. Who needs big sets when you can use this stuff for free?
The Ruins of Detroit tells the city's story so far in one starkly beautiful photograph after another, all of which add up to nothing less than an end-of-empire narrative. Or as Sugrue puts it: "The abandoned factories, the eerily vacant schools, the rotting houses, and gutted skyscrapers that Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre chronicle are the artefacts of Detroit's astonishing rise as a global capital of capitalism and its even more extraordinary descent into ruin, a place where the boundaries between the American dream and the American nightmare, between prosperity and poverty, between the permanent and the ephemeral are powerfully and painfully visible. No place epitomises the creative and destructive forces of modernity more than Detroit, past and present."
