Photo by John DeBoer
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away."
― Eudora Welty, American writer
Some classic photos are in this lot.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD) in Midtown announced Thursday that 18 photographers from the Detroit area and beyond were named winners of a postcard contest for their images of Detroit for a project entitled "My Detroit,"
Twenty photos were selected. The photos will be turned into souvenir postcards that will be given to visitors at the international Venice Biennale architecture show featuring Detroit-based projects. The show runs from from May 28 to Nov. 27 in Venice, Italy.
Photo by Corine Vermeulen
One of those winners is Bill McGraw, the co-founder of Deadline Detroit who now works for Bridge Magazine. McGraw tells the Freep that his photograph of an abandoned baseball backstop in Rouge Park captures "the return of nature in Detroit."
Gallagher writes:
In what amounted to a cultural coup for Detroit, the U.S. Department of State chose the Motor City as the focus of the American pavilion at the 2016 show in Venice, the world's premier exhibition of architectural innovation.
Beginning in May, the U.S. exhibit, one of dozens of national exhibits on display, will be curated by the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and feature the work of 12 architectural teams chosen from around the nation.
The 12 teams will produce conceptual designs for four Detroit sites: the Packard Plant, the Dequindre Cut and Eastern Market district; West Vernor Highway in southwest Detroit, and the U.S. Postal Service building and adjacent land near downtown between West Fort Street and the river.
Photo by Bill McGraw
