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Globalization, a Flat World, and Falling Roofs
What is depicted in the above image no longer exists. What little I saw of it, when it existed, was in shambles. Pieces of cardboard and stripped copper wiring were strewn across the floor. Scrawls...
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Frank Lloyd Wright and His Forgotten Larkin Building
It’s a Saturday. Such an excellent day for documentary films. Of course, if I ever catch myself watching documentary films on Friday, Ganesh forbid, I will have to admit that my soul forever rests in...
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Cartier-Bresson and the Philosophy of American Decay
Photo Copyright Jonathan Haeber There was plenty of glitz in America in the sixties and seventies, yes and in the forties, the era of these pictures, but clearly Cartier-Bresson was trying to get...
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Discovering the Joan of Arc “Oslo Print” at a Castro Theater
Interior of Castro Theatre image by Katie Spence At the Castro Theater, on an unusually warm November night in San Francisco I was treated to a rare, cinematic masterpiece. Particularly unique to this...
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A Complete Guide to Urban Exploration
photo by Jon Haeber We live in a post-industrial world, and our connection to the modes of production, our infrastructure, and the cogs of society is becoming more and more disembodied from day-to-day...
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Holy Land: Religion Abandoned in Connecticut
There is a cross atop a hill in Waterbury, Connecticut. The cross is fifty feet tall and made of steel. Below it, ten-foot-tall neon letters spell out HOLY LAND U.S.A, a ‘testament’ to the religious...
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Abandoned Gary – A Lost Metropolis of Indiana Industry
Making the drive from Chicago to Detroit, along Interstate 90 is a lot like traveling back in time. The modern roadside outside of Chicago slowly seems to recede into oblivion along the way. Factories...
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Binghamton’s Buried Stream of the First Ward
The history of Binghamton’s First Ward leads many to stand in front of a given area and say things such as, “Here was once a great scale-making factory,” or “Here was a factory that sold Matthew Brady...
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Japan’s Nuclear Reactor Cutaway
Click on the image above to see a full-scale [6MB], poster-size scan of a Japanese advanced boiling water nuclear reactor [ABWR]. Though the image above is NOT the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor, it...
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Exploring a Defunct Detroit Steel Factory
Detroit is probably best known for its cars. By many accounts, the first mile of concrete-paved highway was Motown’s Woodward Avenue. But all too often, the city is judged by its end products. Detroit...
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