Abandoned Atlanta

by Jeff Hagerman

"Among the cobwebs and faint light that streams through the boards of broken windows, photographer Jeff Hagerman hopes to unravel the secrets of the past. Slipping into untouched abandoned spaces, it's here Hagerman is able to document the stories of those forgotten--and unknown.

The Atlanta-based explorer started taking photographs in 2012 and never imagined he'd expose the city's underbelly. Whether crawling through the city's sewer system to uncover hidden history of Martin Luther King Jr. or jumping in windows of remarkable vacated school buildings, he's unraveling treasures that make Atlanta so unique. Follow Hagerman through the smell of death and away from the peering eyes of security, and see what it's like to access some of the more inaccessible locations in the city."

112 pages, Paperback

Published December 10, 2018

Reviews

[Sally Kilpatrick]

I'm glad that pictures can preserve something of all these buildings that Atlanta loves to tear down, but this book also saddens me with what we've lost.

It just so happened that I was listening to the Archive Atlanta podcast about Gaines Hall. I'm so sad that that building in particular is being allowed to simply fall in. Here's a web site on it if you don't have this book and don't have time for the podcast: https://www.historicatlanta.org/gaine...