Researching post-industrial imagery for some writing I'm doing, I have been fascinated over the past week by Andrew Moore's photographs of
Detroit Disassembled (published with an essay by the poet Philip Levine). There are awesome images of abandoned car factories, theatres, ballrooms and the ruin that was once Michigan Central Station.
You can also view some of these and other images accompanying an excellent recent piece in David Byrne's blog.
This sort of thing has sometimes been disparaged... Continue reading ...