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Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age

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Over the past 25 years, award-winning ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled yearly to Detroit to document not only the city’s precipitous decline but also how its residents have survived. From the 1970s through the 1990s, changes in Detroit were almost desirous about the worse, as the fabric of the city was once erased through neglect and abandonment. But over the past decade, Detroit has seen the beginnings of a positive transformation, and the photography in Detroit Is No Dry Bones provides unique documentation of the revival and its urbanistic possibilities. Beyond the fate of the city’s buildings themselves, Vergara’s camera has consistently sought to capture the distinct culture of this in large part African American city. The photographs on this book, as an example, are organized in part around the way in which people have re-used and re-purposed structures from the past. Vergara is unique in his documentation of local churches that have re-occupied old bank buildings and other impressive structures from the past and turned them into something hastily powerful architecturally in addition to spiritually.


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