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• julespieri commented on James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city"
  Growing up in Detroit (a long time ago), and struggling through the failing public schools, I can't seem to muster zingy, clever, or ironic comments about this travesty. Look at that house. Imagine the kids (like I was) living in this neighborhood. Imagine the state of a public school in that neighborhood full of rotting shells, open holes, and rampant crime. There's not much to laugh at. I got out. My siblings got out. My mom finally got out a few years ago after muggings, car thefts etc. But we were the lucky ones. The large scale political and economic...
• Quiet Noises commented on Contemporary photographers of Detroit
  I really hate to be a total troll here, but I was rather let down by the technical skill of a good portion of these photographs. Some are ill-exposed and halfhazardly composed that hardly come off better than point-and-shoot. That said, they offer a decent journalistic chronicle of what has happened, and what certainly will happen with a good deal of lower-middle class America. In vein with the complete negativity of this post, I hope some good photography comes out of it all....
• ariadneallan commented on Contemporary photographers of Detroit
  Despite the fact that some of these shots are not technically perfect photography (as noted above) I am still amazed by them. They are beautiful for their candor. They serve a valuable purpose to show us the way things are, they ways in which things have changed, and the fact that there are still real, interesting, vibrant people living in Detroit. These photos are as valuable as the ones of folks today in the Ninth Ward. They show us not only a once great city in decay, but one in the process of changing into something completely different....
• busydoingnothing commented on Contemporary photographers of Detroit
  I love BoingBoing's love for Detroit. I also love introducing people to Detroit for the first time. Maybe I'm biased since I've lived in southeast Michigan for my whole life minus four years, but there are only a handful of cities in the United States that really stand out. I think Detroit is one of them. Everybody knows Detroit. Everybody seems to have some opinion of Detroit, whether they've been there or not. It's usually something about the violence or decay, but it's still a city implanted in everyone's minds. I never lived in Detroit proper, but the house I...
• schmod commented on James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city"
  Oh, Detroit, lift up your weary heads! Restore! Rebuild! Reconsider!...