Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

I own the book The Ruins of Detroit to which this article refers, and live in the greater Metro Detroit area.

Lot's of photos in the book look posed. An american flag, clean and shiny in the middle of an old dusty scenery, or a basketball lonely in a gymnasium with full air pressure after some decades. However, it's an impressive piece of work, and it could be, that it just hurts me looking at these kind of photos.

In documentaries like Detroit - between Utopia and Perdition they go into more detail to what happend and still takes place in the Metro Detroit region. ( www.lavafilm.de/en/p_detroit.html ) It was aired in france and germany, so I don't have a youtube link available. European countries analyse the phenomena Detroit in great detail to understand what happend.

Detroit in 1942: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179089505/

I wish they had some new "detroit in ruins" photos. Most of these have been floating around the Internet for the past 6+ months.