I love this photo essay "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline" by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre that ran in Time magazine last week. Apparently they like taking photos of places that have fallen apart:"Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.
The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wonder about the permanence of things.
Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state."
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