Beauty and decay: inside America’s derelict movie theatres

Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Wallpaper, 31 August 2021

Check out Wallpaper Magazine's latest article on Yves and Romain's latest photobook Movie Theaters (Prestel, 2021).

 

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Armed with a large-format camera, they composed images spanning landscape exteriors to intimate close-ups. There’s beauty in the flaking paint, opulence in the rows of tattered crushed-velvet seats, stories retained in the defunct equipment and abandoned concession stands. Laughs, tears, screams and gasps live on in the crumbling cornices

 

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