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Detroit in ruins
eddie on Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:42 am
Detroit in ruins
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city.
The Observer, Sunday 2 January 2011
The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city.
The Observer, Sunday 2 January 2011
The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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East Methodist Church. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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East Side Public Library. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Light Court, Farwell Building. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Michigan Central Station. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Dentist Cabinet, Broderick Tower. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Offices, Highland Park Police Station. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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The biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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St Christopher House, ex-Public Library. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Michigan Theatre. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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View of Woodward Avenue from the Broderick Tower. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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eddie on Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:30 am
Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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William Livingstone House, Brush Park, a French Renaissance-style house designed by Albert Kahn in 1893 and demolished since this photograph was taken. Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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