Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age

Paul Mastin said If you love Detroit, you'll love this book. If you love Detroit, you will love Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age, by Camilo Jose Vergara. Detroit is past its prime. No question about that. As Vergara so brilliantly depicts with his architectural photography. My favorite sections of the book focused on the classic "If you love Detroit, you'll love this book" according to Paul Mastin. If you love Detroit, you will love Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age, by Camilo Jose Vergara. Detroit is past its prime. No question about that. As Vergara so brilliantly depicts with his architectural photography. My favorite sections of the book focused on the classic 20th century architecture that reflects the great wealth Detroit experienced the first half of the 20th century. Sadly, much of it is in ruins. But it makes for stunning pictures! The amount of the properties, both commercial and re. 0th century architecture that reflects the great wealth Detroit experienced the first half of the "If you love Detroit, you'll love this book" according to Paul Mastin. If you love Detroit, you will love Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age, by Camilo Jose Vergara. Detroit is past its prime. No question about that. As Vergara so brilliantly depicts with his architectural photography. My favorite sections of the book focused on the classic 20th century architecture that reflects the great wealth Detroit experienced the first half of the 20th century. Sadly, much of it is in ruins. But it makes for stunning pictures! The amount of the properties, both commercial and re. 0th century. Sadly, much of it is in ruins. But it makes for stunning pictures! The amount of the properties, both commercial and re. "Vergara’s work is an exploration of urban American and can best be summed up with the words of T" according to Eric Holcomb. Vergara’s new book Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age presents piercing images of Detroit’s changing distressed neighborhoods. This book captures pictures of humanity from neglected neighborhoods that are devoid of dis-embodied digital voices, viewpoints, and opinions. Within this clearing, Vergara’s photography allows for authentic interaction between artist, place, and reader – a rare achievement in today’s ultra-hyper media environment.Detroit Is No Dry Bones exposes. Five stars This book was a real delight for me, the layout, images, content are all spot on and it just made me want to delve in further to the past and present of Detroit. This really is an excellent book and deserves it's 5 star rating.

Over the past 25 years, award-winning ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled annually to Detroit to document not only the city’s precipitous decline but also how its residents have survived. Vergara is unique in his documentation of local churches that have re-occupied old bank buildings and other impressive structures from the past and turned them into something unexpectedly powerful architecturally as well as spiritually.. The photographs in this book, for example, are organized in part around the way people have re-used and re-purposed structures from the past. Beyond the fate of the city’s buildings themselves, Vergara’s camera has consistently sought to capture the distinct culture of this largely African American city. From the 1970s through the 1990s, changes in Detroit were almost all for the worse, as the fabric of the city was erased through neglect and abandonment. But over the last decade, Detroit has seen the beginnings of a positive transformation, and the photography in Detroit Is No Dry Bones provides unique documentation of the revival and its urbanistic possibilities

“Vergara is especially alert to changes in the urban landscape perhaps more people will take a second, closer look at the wealth of native folk art we have all over town. And Vergara deserves thanks for recording them and offering a serious critical appraisal.” —Detroit Metro Times