Detroit is no dry bones : the eternal city of the industrial age /

Detroit is no dry bones : the eternal city of the industrial age /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Vergara, Camilo J., author, photographer.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Description:	v, 295 pages ; 24 x 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Inner cities -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Pictorial works. Historic buildings -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Pictorial works. Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Pictorial works. Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Pictorial works. Social change -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Pictorial works. Buildings. Buildings -- Remodeling for other use. Historic buildings. Inner cities. Social change. Social conditions. Urban renewal. Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works. Detroit (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works. Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography -- Pictorial works. Michigan -- Detroit. Biography -- Pictorial works. Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10944097

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ISBN:	9780472130115 0472130110
Summary:	"Detroit has lost nearly sixty percent of its population since the mid-1950s. Ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled to Detroit to document not only the city's precipitous decline but also how its residents have survived. Through annual visits to Detroit over the past twenty five years, Vergara has sought to capture the image of the inner city and its changes over time. From the 1970s through the 1990s, these changes were almost all for the worse, as the built 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 Detroit Is No Dry Bones provides unique documentation of the revival and its urbanistic possibilities. Beyond the fate of the city's buildings themselves, Vergara has consistently sought to illumine the lives of Detroit's people. Not only has he shown the impact of depopulation, disinvestment, and abandonment on their lives during the worst years of the urban crisis; but he has shown their resilience as well. The photographs are organized in part around the way people have re-used and re-purposed structures from the past. Vergara, for example, 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"--

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Summary:	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. 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. The photographs in this book, for example, are organized in part around the way people have re-used and re-purposed structures from the past. 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. <br> <br>
Physical Description:	v, 295 pages ; 24 x 29 cm
ISBN:	9780472130115 0472130110