Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit

Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre

ISBN 10: 3869300426 / ISBN 13: 9783869300429

Published by Steidl, Germany, 2010

About this Item

Beautifully produced large format volume of photographs of Detroit's urban decay. Printed cloth covers. Numerous full page color reproductions. Essays by Robert Polidori and Thomas Sugrue. Stated first edition. A fine hardcover copy without marks, inscriptions or fading. Not ex-library. 227 pages. s35.

Seller Inventory # EDB01707

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit
• Publisher: Steidl, Germany
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3869300426
• ISBN 13: 9783869300429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Over the past generation Detroit has suffered economically worse than any other of the major American cities and its rampant urban decay is now glaringly apparent. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have documented this disintegration, showcasing structures that were formerly a source of civic pride, and which now stand as monuments to the city’s fall from grace. This is the third edition of this award-winning book.

From the Back Cover

Until the 1960s, Detroit was one of America's most important cities, a hub of industry with a population of almost two million and a skyline to rival that of any U.S. city. Its buildings were monuments to its success and vitality in the first half of the twentieth century. At the start of the twenty-first century, those same monuments are now ruins: the United Artists Theater, the Whitney Building, the Farwell Building and the once ravishing Michigan Central Station (unused since 1988) today look as if a bomb had dropped on Motor City, leaving behind the ruins of a once great civilization. These astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.