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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline - Time Photo Essay

French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre captured some amazing images in their Time Photo Essay: Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline.

As the title implies, the photos are both beautiful and horrible at the same time.

The horrible state of decline depicted in many of the photos is disturbing on many levels, perhaps not the least of which is the fear of where we are going and will we too end up there?