The 2016 U.S. Venice Biennale Pavilion is one step closer to becoming a reality with today's reveal of the 'My Detroit' postcard photo competition winners...[Out of 463 entries, the winning photos] were considered as unique individual depictions of Detroit that could also collectively tell a larger story about the present-day city. The photographs will then be printed as postcards and distributed to visitors when the Biennale opens in May. — Bustler
See more of the photos over on Bustler.
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These are beautiful. I miss Detroit. Just got back from three too-short days there after not having been for about 9 years. Such an awesome city.
BTW Michigan Central Station now has new windows throughout. So that truly is a picture of a lost romantic era (that is better off as a lovely memory, IMO).
Detroit has more going on architecturally in its pinkie finger than most cities….
agreed that these are beautiful, but they are incredibly problematic in that they encourage the narrative that detroit is an empty city that used to be nostalgically white. this is just not true. only one of the postcards featured a person of color (there was an additional one with what might have been a middle-eastern family, but that was it). there are scary implications in the narrative the us pavilion is putting forth, and the sooner people realize the better. my two cents, as a recently arrived academic that has been made aware rather quickly of the problems of the city and the abrupt disjunction with the pavilion's strategies.
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