Following on the heels of their incredibly successful The Ruins of
Detroit, this major new project by the prolific French photographer
duo Marchand/Meffre, poignantly eulogizes and celebrates the
tattered remains of hundreds of movie theaters across America. They
are in every American city and town-grandiose movie palaces,
constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that
now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005,
the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been traveling
across the US to visit these early 20th-century relics. In hundreds
of lushly colored images, they have captured the rich architectural
diversity of the theaters' exteriors, from neo renaissance to
neo-Gothic, art nouveau to Bauhaus, and neo-Byzantine to
Jugendstill. They have also stepped inside to capture the
commonalities of a dying culture- crumbling plaster, rows of broken
crushed-velvet seats, peeling paint, defunct equipment, and
abandoned concession stands-as well as their transformation into
bingo halls, warehouses, fitness centers, flea markets, parking
lots, and grocery stores. Using a large format camera, the
photographers' carefully composed images range from landscape
exteriors to starkly beautiful closeups. Presented here in a
gorgeous oversized format, exquisitely printed with superior inks
and spot varnish, this illustrated eulogy for the American movie
palace is certain to become a modern-day classic.
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