February 10, 2011 at 9:05 am

The Ruins of Detroit

by twistedsifter

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Parisian photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre took a trip to Detroit to capture the urban decay of a once thriving city. In their book The Ruins of Detroit, Yves and Romain photograph abandoned buildings, offering a chilling look into a city in decline.

 

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The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

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.

 

 

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