#documentingdetroit

Her book-Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Glenda Terrace The Detroit Public Library, 8/2/18 #8x10 gelatin silver contact print

Glenda was born in the city. “I’ve been with the DPL for 25 years.” Currently, she’s working in administration.

“Midnight: A Gangster Love Story,” was written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster in 2008.

The Art & Science of Respect Courtney East Lawn The Detroit Public Library, 8/14/18 8x10 gelatin silver contact print 

Courtney rolls up in an electric rideshare with a rose in his mouth. He’s been working at the DPL for about five years. “I just got transferred back to Main, (branch) with a promotion.” I ask who the rose is for – “Oh, it’s for my boss.” 

“The Art & Science of Respect,” was written by Jasmine D. Waters and published in 2018.

Detroit: Reconstructed, 11/14/17

Fisher Building, Albert Kahn, 1928

Irregular gelatin silver contact print

Detroit: Reconstructed, 12/7/17 Fyfe’s Shoe Store, 1919 Smith, Hinchman, Grylls with monument to Hazel S. Pingree ( The Idol of the People) #8x10 gelatin silver contact print

Cass Gilberts Woolworth building 1913 in New York established a precedent for Gothic commercial architecture. Fyfe’s Shoe Store in Detroit built in 1919, continued that tradition in a 14 story structure. Designed by Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, this handsome building with soaring vertical lines and deep window reveals stands as a landmark at the head of the busy thoroughfares that converge at Grand Circus Park. (Hawkins Ferry)

Detroit:Reconstructed, 11/29/17 Michigan Consolidated Gas Building Minoru Yamasaki, 1963 Irregular gelatin silver contact print 

The architect (World Trade Center, 1973-2001) believed this building should be a civic ornament. Completed in 1963, it rises from a marble platform with a 30 foot high glass enclosed lobby with marble columns and reflecting pool. Giving form and texture to the exterior walls, Yamasaki used precast prestressed concrete panels. Two stories in height, the panels were joined at the center of the windows. These openings are extended hexagons, so designed to emphasize verticality and eliminate the feeling of acrophobia when one is high in the building, even though the glass extends nearly to the floor. (Hawkins Ferry)

3 years into the DPL book project- planning my next move-

A Song of Joys

Self

Marble bench, terrace

The Detroit Public Library, 7/12/17

#8x10 gelatin silver contact print