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July 25, 2009
I find myself deeply attracted to industrial architecture that is photographed with an eye to its history as opposed to just its form. A history that reminds us of an age that has passed. So we have empty buildings as ruins:
Maria Levitsky, Thunderbolt, Coney Island, 2001, Silver Gelatin Print
It was not that many years ago that we would have found it hard to accept that industrial capitalism was a historical period and one that was becoming history. Instead of the ruins of castles we have industrial ruins.
Levitsky says:
At times, inside these abandoned buildings whose stories I don't know, I’ve felt compelled to imagine the myriad events that led to the demise of the place and its previous inhabitants. The word palimpsest often comes to mind. It invokes the erased-book feeling conveyed by the empty walls, scribbled with vague marks left on bare surfaces by unknown people. It is this evidence of disappearance that I desire to record in my photographs.
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