DIRTY ART AND DIRTY HANDS Examining what puts the “porn” in Ruin Porn
Ruin porn–that much-maligned meme for artistic depictions of abandoned buildings–suffers from one intractable problem. Most of those who decry its gratuitous revelry in the abandonment of our cities also participate in it. James Griffioen coined the term to deride those who fly into Detroit with expensive cameras to take photos they then sell for thousands of dollars to non-Detroiters, exploiting the city for its horribly beauty […]
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