Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit

At the end of the XIXth Century, mankind was about to fulfill an old dream. The idea of a fast and autonomous means of displacement was slowly becoming a reality for engineers all over the world. Thanks to its ideal location on the Great Lakes Basin, the city of Detroit was about to generate its own industrial revolution. Visionary engineers and entrepreneurs flocked to its borders. Michigan Central Station Woodward Avenue Atrium, Farwell Building 18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower Donovan Building David Whitney Building Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit Metropolitan & Wurlitzer Buildings United Artists Theater Fort Shelby Hotel Ballroom, American Hotel William Livingstone House Melted clock, Cass Technical High School Former Unitarian Church Piano, Saint Albertus School East Methodist Church Luben Apartments Rich-Dex Apartments Apartments Classroom, St Margaret Mary School Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School St Christopher House, ex-Public Library

59 Amazing Street Art collected by @themadray | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork Lucie & Simon - Silent World "Silent World" was awarded by the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation prize, and received a Grant from the CICRP center Marseille, European Year of Culture 2013. The silence of the world, like a quotation, is suddenly endowed with an oppressive eloquence. Small intrusions are the true sparks here, because their disconcerting presence disrupts the majestic calm of the streets and squares. Are the latter guilty or victims? The fate that governs these shots in a tangible way is not the result of decisions taken by metaphysical powers, but stems uniquely from the imagination of the two creators of these photos, Lucie & Simon. Although they consciously and intelligently stage the principle of the “déjà-vu”, they nevertheless brilliantly include observers in their game and transform them into co-creators of their images. Klaus Honnef Art Critic and Curator co-organizer of Kassel DOCUMENTA V and VI extract from « Lucie & Simon, The incertitude of being » Actes sud editions, 2010.