Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472130110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Vergara is especially alert to changes in the urban landscape perhaps more people will take a second, closer look at the wealth of native folk art we have all over town. And Vergara deserves thanks for recording them and offering a serious critical appraisal.” —Detroit Metro Times
If you love Detroit, you'll love this book If you love Detroit, you will love Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age, by Camilo Jose Vergara. Detroit is past its prime. No question about that. As Vergara so brilliantly depicts with his architectural photography. My favorite sections of the book focused on the classic 20th century architectu. Vergara’s work is an exploration of urban American and can best be summed up with the words of T Eric Holcomb Vergara’s new book Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age presents piercing images of Detroit’s changing distressed neighborhoods. This book captures pictures of humanity from neglected neighborhoods that are devoid of dis-embodied digital voices, viewpoints, and opinions. Within this c. Five stars This book was a real delight for me, the layout, images, content are all spot on and it just made me want to delve in further to the past and present of Detroit. This really is an excellent book and deserves it's 5 star rating.
Beyond the fate of the city’s buildings themselves, Vergara’s camera has consistently sought to capture the distinct culture of this largely African American city. Over the past 25 years, award-winning ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled annually 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 all for the worse, as the fabric of the city was erased through neglect and abandonment. But over the last 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. 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 unexpectedly powerful architecturally as well as spiritually.. The photogra