Isn’t this a beautiful picture of the famous Loew’s Kings Theater (now abandoned) in Brooklyn? It’s just one of several abandoned theaters that Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have photographed in their Theaters series.
The industrial remnants of Eastern Germany
July 6, 2009 @ 1:37 am
I’ve posted about the photos of abandoned Detroit from Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre previously but I had no idea that the two of them also ventured to Germany to document the industrial decay going on there as well.
In their series, Eastern Industries, Yves and Romain offer a glimpse of Germany unlike those seen in travel brochures and guide books. It seems as if Germany is home to a good number of abandoned industrial factories that are not only enormous in size but also built with extravagant architectural design as well. I should keep this list of German ruins in mind when I visit in the future.
Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline (in pictures)
March 13, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
There’s been lots of news lately about the rapidly declining quality of life in Detroit, a once-booming industrial city that is now almost completely abandoned. I’ve already posted about an incident of a dead body left unattended for about a month in the middle of Detroit’s downtown area and a video that shows the quietness of Detroit, but this series of images by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre at Time magazine really show how terrible the city has decayed.
This is a bad thing for any city to experience, but a part of me really wants to visit Detroit to explore this place and all of its ruins.
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