| Detroit Resurgent Contributor(s): Bossen, Howard (Editor), Beck, John P. (Editor), Perrin, Gilles (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 1611861306 ISBN-13: 9781611861303 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 977.434 |
| LCCN: 2013028632 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.6" W x 11.1" (2.45 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Detroit is frequently viewed as a city where hope has been lost, government is totally dysfunctional, and the infrastructure is beyond repair. For far too many people around the world, the Motor City is perceived as a city whose greatness is in distant memory. Detroit Resurgent, while not ignoring the problems facing the city, explores Detroit in a new way that reveals a culturally rich, very alive, and undeniably present side of the city. Through photographic portraits, interviews, essays, and poetry, it demonstrates the vitality and humanity of Detroit's people, providing a powerful counternarrative to the vision of Detroit as a Rust Belt wasteland. Giving voice to people with hopes for a brighter future and aspirations to create a new city out of the old required recording their own words and engaging a portrait photographer grounded in humanism whose approach is based upon the traditions of social documentary photography. Detroit Resurgent explores the city through the voices of those working in a multitude of ways to reshape it into a twenty-first-century urban space, through the auto industry, urban agriculture and food production, entrepreneurial action and small business, visual and performing arts, activism, and visionary leadership. |