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Chargement... American Ruinspar Camilo J. Vergara
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He's an excellent writer in addition to being an excellent photographer; I love the glimpses we get as he roots through these structures, finding abandoned records in the Newark Parole Office, Administration, and Personnel offices that briefly illuminate a disciplinary case from over thirty years ago, visible only in tiny pieces to us now. Some of these structures need to be demolished, but never will be-- sometimes that money's not there, sometimes no one in authority is even aware that there's a problem. But sometimes they are demolished, and then Vergara mourns their loss. The monuments of the early twentieth century, Americanism at its height, demolished to make way for another parking lot. Surely even an abandoned office building is better than that? The majority of the pictures come from places like Detroit, Gary, Newark, and New York City, as you might imagine; one of my favorites was probably the postmodern sculpture of Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project: abandoned houses coated with the detritus of our modern society and culture. And perhaps one of the most haunting images is that of the trees now growing inside the abanoned Camden Free Public Library. Humanity may no longer have a use for what we have built, but nature always will.