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January 3, 2011

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, have traveled across Europe and the U.S. to portray vanishing architectural icons, concert halls where music has been forgotten, industrial buildings that saw better times, buildings reduced to the skeleton of concrete and metal.

MarchandY+MeffreRVanityBallroomDetroit.jpg Yves Marchand+Romain Meffre, Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom, from The ruins of Detroit

While Detroit rose to prosperity on the back of industrial progress, these pictures show the ruins of thr motor capital of US industrial capitalism after the city sank into a depression of cultural and economic bankruptcy.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 3:15 PM |