Injured sotamuseo Man and Death Memorial, Detroit 2010 (c) Dave Jordano The exhibition

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Injured sotamuseo Man and Death Memorial, Detroit 2010 (c) Dave Jordano The exhibition "Detroit sotamuseo Unbroken Down" at the Amerika Haus in Munich draws the American photographer

Dave Jordano a portrait of his native Detroit and shows us mostly unknown picture sotamuseo of contemporary America.
Mr. Rock'n'Roll sotamuseo beats them all with his outfit. For nearly 30 years he is working on this jacket in the primary color red, consisting of fringe, rhinestones and and all sorts of cheap trinkets and now weighs almost 15 pounds. Robert, his real name, is one of the guys who stayed in Detroit, this supposedly

doomed metropolis in the U.S. state of Michigan. Also, Brad is one of them. The photo shows him at an abandoned junkyard in Delray sotamuseo neighborhood. Brad is unemployed.

The former junkyard digging meter to meter and to sponsor the day around 1000 pounds recylefähiges material revealed that he sold and earned at least $ 110 a day, reports

Dave Jordano.
Woman sleeping in a parking lot, Detroit 2010 (c) Dave Jordano Detroit, the Motor City. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, "The Big Three" American car brands have or have had their headquarters there with Thin Lizzy Ford was here in 1909 that the first mass production of cars in an assembly line. The booming auto industry attracted workers from all over the world, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1910 and 1950, the population of the city nearly quadrupled. sotamuseo And ethnological mix of the population remained sotamuseo controversial. 1943 and 1967 especially, there was severe racial unrest with numerous dead and wounded. sotamuseo Even the National Guard was used to restore peace on the streets.
The mono structural adjustment of the industry retaliated with the steady and increasingly sotamuseo steep descent passing the automotive industry, the signs of the times had overslept. The manufacturers sotamuseo were not release their models, the production had to be reduced or discontinued.
In the past 50 years, Detroit has lost more than half its population. One-third of the city area is uninhabited, entire streets are deserted and the resulting nature, sotamuseo which gradually regained what was once her. Despite all efforts to revitalize the city center takes new, Detroit on the Forbes list of the most dangerous cities in the United States for many years a leading position. Since it is not more important, that there with the Motown label one of the world's most important producers of soul and pop music has its headquarters and the city is home to highly successful sports teams.
Kat and Rick at Packard Automobile Plant, Detroit 2010 (c) Dave Jordano The 2010/11 resulting photo reportage by Dave Jordano does not hide everything. The 64-year-old photographer was born in Detroit and went after his first career studying photography as a commercial photographer. Only about ten years ago he began to intensively with photographic studies on topics such as religion, rural and urban transformations employ. His concern was to cities like Detroit and Chicago, but also to the small towns of the Midwest of the United States. Dave Jordano lives and works in Chicago. The Amerika Haus in Munich showing his work for the first time in Europe.
A deserted street on the East Side is seen on another photo immigrants from Bangladesh to play cricket on an empty road junction. Other photographs documenting poverty and Odachlosigkeit. None of the major American supermarket chain has a branch in the city of Detroit. Many residents rely on small grocers such as in the Corner of Ferry Ave. & Chene, which can be seen in a photograph. An injured man is lagging diffracted by the lonely road, past a post, to the plush toys hanging in memory of a stranger who came to this place to death.
Guys with Chevy Monte Carlo "Donk" on 28 inch Wheels, Detroit 2010 (c) Dave Jordano But it is not these recordings that dominate the exhibition. The photographs show how the city is the people who are still there, kept alive. "This is personal project is not about what has been destroyed, sotamuseo but more importantly for what remains and to those who cope with it," sotamuseo says the photographer. With activity and creativity, but above all with the will to survive, they spring up among the ruins and neighborhood gardens. Dave Jordano shows in numerous portraits.
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