View of the elevated tracks and surroundings looking north along Wabash Avenue from Adams Street.
The top two are 1900 photos by Detroit Photographic Company, the first via monovisions.com and the second via shorpy.com. The third photo is a comparable 2010 view submitted by JeffK to shorpy.com.
Sevinçli’s book Good Dog made as a tribute to the legendary Daido Moriyama’s 1971 image Stray Dog but it is also the locals’ nickname for the neighborhood in Istanbul in which Sevincli lives. I love the scratched-up blown-out surface, the nearly dead cockroach, a punk’s shredded tights and a fly on a super-grainy window. It has stark, raw images with an aesthetic shared by Anders Petersen.
The book is darkly seductive – even the paper surface is sexy to the touch – and has a dark narrative, which really drew me into its spell. The images are disquieting and I share Sevincli’s fears and questions of the environment he is photographing.