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From a slideshow on Places Journal, called Detroit Re-Photography, of Detroit photographs from the 70’s updated in 2010. It’s interesting for the variety. You open every slide expecting the 2010 version to be completely decrepit and/or vanished, but that’s not always the case.  But even in the instances when you aren’t looking at something that has been made worse by the steady flight of capital from the inner city, it’s hard not to feel like something has been lost. Detroit traded some lovely old buildings for a People Mover and what looks like a candidate for tallest building in Flagstaff, Arizona.  And this is one of the more unsettling things about this collection of photographs — both the ruin and the old are far more aesthetically pleasing than the new. I know that nostalgia can play tricks on your mental faculties, but it’s hard for me to think that this is just nostalgia.  Just as a brick rowhome would look out of place in the middle of an office park in Riverside, this pinkish thing looks uncomfortable in downtown Detroit.

From a slideshow on Places Journal, called Detroit Re-Photography, of Detroit photographs from the 70’s updated in 2010. It’s interesting for the variety. You open every slide expecting the 2010 version to be completely decrepit and/or vanished, but that’s not always the case. 

But even in the instances when you aren’t looking at something that has been made worse by the steady flight of capital from the inner city, it’s hard not to feel like something has been lost. Detroit traded some lovely old buildings for a People Mover and what looks like a candidate for tallest building in Flagstaff, Arizona. 

And this is one of the more unsettling things about this collection of photographs — both the ruin and the old are far more aesthetically pleasing than the new. I know that nostalgia can play tricks on your mental faculties, but it’s hard for me to think that this is just nostalgia. 

Just as a brick rowhome would look out of place in the middle of an office park in Riverside, this pinkish thing looks uncomfortable in downtown Detroit.

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