Detroit in ruins
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city. For an interactive tour of January's best photo exhibitions and books, see The New Review's month in photography
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The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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East Methodist Church
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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East Side Public Library
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Light Court, Farwell Building
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Michigan Central Station
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Dentist Cabinet, Broderick Tower
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Offices, Highland Park Police Station
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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The biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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St Christopher House, ex-Public Library
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Michigan Theatre
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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View of Woodward Avenue from the Broderick Tower
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here.
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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William Livingstone House, Brush Park, a French Renaissance-style house designed by Albert Kahn in 1893 and demolished since this photograph was taken
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station
Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
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