Detroit Revealed: Photographs, 2000-2010

by Nancy Barr, John Gallagher, Carlo McCormack

This stunning volume presents photographic work inspired by Detroit, its people, industry, and diverse culture as found in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Through their portraits, landscapes, architectural studies, and documentary work, artists and photographers Michelle Andonian, Dawoud Bey, Carlos Diaz, Scott Hocking, Ari Marcopoulos, Andrew Moore, Alec Soth, and Corine Vermeulen shed light on life in the city during one of its most challenging periods. With imagery derived from Detroits vast urban prairies as well as thriving neighborhoods, factories, community farms, and public spaces, their work provides new windows into the experience and unique character of the Motor City since the year 2000. Essays by Nancy W. Barr, John Gallagher, and Carlo McCormick examine the subjects and history common to photographic practice in Detroit, the city as the site of transformation and opportunity, and the emergence of new narratives and artistic practice that reveal Detroit as an honest and illuminating indicator of contemporary American experience. Detroit Revealed brings forth these ideas and showcases the work of eight artists who have brought their critical and enlightening perspectives on the city together for the first time.

80 pages, Hardcover

First published September 15, 2011

About the author

A resident Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Nancy Barr grew up in the tiny town of Rapid River nestled at the top of Little Bay de Noc.
Her favorite memories as a young child are of weekly trips to the neighborhood library with her late mother to spend hours poring over books of all kinds. Her love of reading and writing led her to a career in newspaper journalism where she spent several years covering police, courts, schools and local governments and now works at Michigan Technological University.
An animal aficionado, she lives on the Keweenaw Peninsula with three demanding, but lovable, cats. When not writing, Nancy enjoys hiking and photographing the natural beauty that abounds in the Upper Peninsula.
Her novels include "Page One: Hit and Run" (July 2006, Arbutus Press) and "Page One: Vanished" (May 2007, Arbutus Press). She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America."