Brooktaw
Established
I thought people might be interested in seeing some of these images .
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/nov/12/lost-and-found-a-glimpse-of-detroits-past-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Anyone in Detroit able to visit the exhibition?
Chris
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/nov/12/lost-and-found-a-glimpse-of-detroits-past-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Anyone in Detroit able to visit the exhibition?
Chris
JoeLopez
Well-known
I love shots like these - thank you for sharing 
Archiver
Veteran
These are fascinating. I love seeing how various cities and cultures looked in the 50s, 60s, 70s and early 80s.
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
I saw this one at the DIA. It's very interesting to see everyday life long ago, or even its banalities. It's also a good show aesthetically - the photos they show are well done yet still very spontaneous. I would also editorialize that it shows like this undercut the bitter narratives of older people who moved out of Detroit in the 60s-80s. The streets were never paved with gold. There was always beauty and always grime, and that went for every part of the population.
What this does drive home is that the film to digital transition has put older personal pictures at risk of destruction - or at least inaccess - because with every generational change, fewer prints are kept, and fewer get scanned into some generally accessible format. As a result, we have very little public information about what life looked like 30, 40, or 50 years ago.
And in the time period covered by this exhibit, film was expensive. This means that there was a much greater tendency for things to be carefully posed - if not outright formal. The point of the exhibit is to get past that.
If you are in Detroit, it's a good exhibit to see. It's not gigantic (it's maybe 1,200 square feet of exhibit space), but it's worth checking in on. The DIA photography department frequently has really interesting shows - they even had a huge show of Patti Smith's b/w Polaroids. She did some incredible work.
Dante
What this does drive home is that the film to digital transition has put older personal pictures at risk of destruction - or at least inaccess - because with every generational change, fewer prints are kept, and fewer get scanned into some generally accessible format. As a result, we have very little public information about what life looked like 30, 40, or 50 years ago.
And in the time period covered by this exhibit, film was expensive. This means that there was a much greater tendency for things to be carefully posed - if not outright formal. The point of the exhibit is to get past that.
If you are in Detroit, it's a good exhibit to see. It's not gigantic (it's maybe 1,200 square feet of exhibit space), but it's worth checking in on. The DIA photography department frequently has really interesting shows - they even had a huge show of Patti Smith's b/w Polaroids. She did some incredible work.
Dante