书评:《废墟帝国:美国文化、摄影和毁灭奇观》

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.351

Andrew Higgott

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书评| 2023年9月1日评论:废墟帝国:美国文化，摄影，和破坏的奇观迈尔斯·奥威尔废墟帝国:美国文化，摄影，和破坏的奇观纽约:牛津大学出版社，2021年，280页，80彩色插图。49.95美元(布)，ISBN 9780190491604安德鲁·希戈特独立学者搜索作者的其他作品:本网站PubMed谷歌建筑历史学会学者杂志(2023)82(3):351-352。https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.351查看图标查看文章内容图表和表格视频音频补充数据同行评审分享图标分享Facebook Twitter LinkedIn电子邮件工具图标工具获得权限引用图标引用搜索网站引文安德鲁·希戈特;书评:《废墟帝国:美国文化、摄影和毁灭奇观》。《建筑历史学会学报》2023年9月1日;82(3): 351-352。doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.351下载引文文件:Ris (Zotero)参考经理EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex工具栏搜索搜索下拉菜单工具栏搜索搜索输入搜索输入自动建议过滤您的搜索所有内容建筑历史学家协会杂志搜索迈尔斯·奥威尔的废墟帝国中最引人注目的图像之一是一张桦树的照片，桦树直接生长在底特律一座长期废弃的建筑中大量分解的书籍中。对于我们这些认为书是世界文化、知识和想象力的化身的人来说，书应该在曾经存放它们的建筑物的废墟中变成树的堆肥，这尤其令人不安。这令人震惊，也提醒我们，我们所珍视的东西是多么脆弱。这张照片展示了一座图书馆被摧毁的恐怖景象，来自安德鲁·摩尔的《底特律解体》(2010)，这是过去二十年来出版的一系列摄影书籍之一，这些书籍研究了底特律伟大建筑的衰落和衰落。1除了摩尔的强大摄影作品，奥维尔还展示了其他摄影师的作品，包括伊夫·马钱德和……您目前没有访问此内容的权限。

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Review: Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction

Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction Miles Orvell Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 280 pp., 80 color illus. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780190491604 Andrew Higgott Andrew Higgott Independent scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 351–352. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.351 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Andrew Higgott; Review: Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 351–352. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.351 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search One of the most arresting images in Miles Orvell’s Empire of Ruins is a photograph of birch trees growing directly out of a mass of decomposing books in a long-abandoned building in Detroit. That books should be reduced to tree compost in the ruins of the building that once housed them is particularly disturbing for those of us who think of books as embodying the world’s culture, knowledge, and imagination. It is a shock and a reminder of the fragility of what we value. This picture showing the horror of a library that has literally gone to seed comes from Andrew Moore’s Detroit Disassembled (2010), one of a number of photo books published in the past two decades that examine the decline and fall of the great structures of Detroit.1 Along with Moore’s powerful photography, Orvell presents the work of other photographers of Detroit’s ruination, including Yves Marchand and... You do not currently have access to this content.

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期刊介绍： Published since 1941, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a leading English-language journal on the history of the built environment. Each issue offers four to five scholarly articles on topics from all periods of history and all parts of the world, reviews of recent books, exhibitions, films, and other media, as well as a variety of editorials and opinion pieces designed to place the discipline of architectural history within a larger intellectual context.