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Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline

Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2009

Time.com

Click on above link to view photo gallery.

Remains of a City
On their website, the photographers write, “Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes…the volatile result of the change of eras and the fall of empires. This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things.”

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