This was tagged on Boing Boing, and I thought it was pretty lovely. http://www.mitchcope.com/projects/detroit-book-of-love/
It brings up something I find interesting: Detroit is obviously a city with unprecedented problems, that these photos illustrate eloquently. But they also reiinforce a narrative of Detroit as a post-prosperity wasteland. It feels like there's a conceptual Detroit being created, a sort of "Life After Man" wasteland with crack heads and copper scavengers scuttling among the ruins. This is by no means the whole story -- real people live in Detroit, and despite the challenges they face, many manage to live productive, even happy lives. They also have an active and evolving civic and artistic culture. How could these two stories of Detroit be synthesized?
