deBushka

Photoset Post

In the United States, few cities have felt the burn of urban decay more than Detroit.  To capture its slow fade into history, photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre explored some of Detroit’s dying landmarks for their photo series The Ruins of Detroit.  As the industrial revolution came to a close and race riots crippled a once bustling city, many buildings throughout Detroit fell into disrepair and eventual abandonment.  Today, visitors to Detroit can experience two sides of the city– the revitalized, re-invested downtown area, and the high-rises and industrial complexes which crumble around it.

Posted in Detroit photography still life architecture history ruin abandoned Yves Marchand Romain Meffre America
Photo Post
Poster by Jean Carlu, 1942 America’s Answer! Production by Carlu, Jean

Poster by Jean Carlu, 1942

America’s Answer! Production by Carlu, Jean

Posted in Jean Carlu design poster America propoganda politics 1940s
Photo Post
Jim Dow. Hagan’s Dairy Bar, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1980. “My interest in photography centers on its capacity for exact description… . I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country’s everyday landscape.” —Jim Dow  Jim Dow’s interest in those places where people enact their everyday rituals, from the barbershop to the baseball park, has guided the path of his photographic career. Dow is concerned with capturing “human ingenuity and spirit” in endangered regional traditions—a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop—all artifacts of a vanishing era.  View high resolution

Jim Dow. Hagan’s Dairy Bar, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1980.

“My interest in photography centers on its capacity for exact description… . I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country’s everyday landscape.” —Jim Dow 

Jim Dow’s interest in those places where people enact their everyday rituals, from the barbershop to the baseball park, has guided the path of his photographic career. Dow is concerned with capturing “human ingenuity and spirit” in endangered regional traditions—a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop—all artifacts of a vanishing era. 

Posted in Jim Dow Photography America Art
Ultralite Powered by Tumblr | Designed by:Doinwork