{"id":14045,"date":"2019-04-19T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14045"},"modified":"2022-02-20T04:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T04:19:55","slug":"detroit-138-square-miles-signed-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/detroit-138-square-miles-signed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit: 138 Square Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Detroit: 138 Square Miles by the photographer Julia Reyes Taubman <\/strong\n\n\"Julia Reyes Taubman worked in semi-seclusion on her Detroit photography project for nearly seven years and after almost 40,000 photographs she\u2019s assembled her first book with the help of former Detroit Free Press art critic Marsha Miro and book designer Lorraine Wild, a former Detroiter who endowed the book with its visual rhythms and understated focus. Wild is one of top book designers in the country \u2013and her style and artful eye brings the book to life.\"\n\n\"Over a period of six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman took more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out a comprehensive survey of a major American city. Photographing on the ground, in the buildings and by air and water, Reyes Taubman believes that when buildings and landscape are manipulated by nature and time they become more visually compelling than almost any architectural intervention. Reyes Taubman is not pessimistic, however: \"It is not a disgrace but a privilege and an obligation to listen to the stories only ruins can tell,\" she writes in regard to this project. \"They tell us a lot about who we were, what we once valued most, and perhaps where we may be going.\" As Reyes Taubman scrutinizes this 138-square-mile metropolis in transition, she pays particular attention to the scale and the solidity of the buildings that characterized the former \"Motor City\" at the height of its industrial wealth and power. More than a photographic saturation job of a single city, Detroit: 138 Square Miles provides contextual perspective in an extended caption section in which Reyes Taubman collaborated with University of Michigan professor Robert Fishman and doctoral student Michael McCulloch to emphasize the social imperatives driving her documentation. An essay by native Detroiter and bestselling author Elmore Leonard addresses the social and cultural significance of the post-industrial condition of this metropolis.\"\n\nHardcover: 480 pages\nPublisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2011)\nLanguage: English\nISBN-13: 978-0982389607\nProduct Dimensions: 11 x 2.2 x 9 inches\n\n[Please note: The spine of this volume is specially treated with black ink to evoke the industrial character of its subject.]\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit: 138 Square Miles by the photographer Julia Reyes Taubman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14046,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68,96,294],"product_tag":[326,336,481],"class_list":["post-14045","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-architecture","product_cat-contemporary-photography","product_cat-detroit-photography","product_tag-detroit-architecture","product_tag-detroit-history","product_tag-julia-reyes-taubman","product_shipping_class-priority_medium","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}