By Dora Apel
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But you get worn down trying to show them all the different sides of the city, then watching them go back and write the same story as everyone else. The photographers are the worst. 24 But as Griffioen tells Woodward, “I take pictures of ruins, too, but I put them in the context of living in the city. ”25 After years of shooting the city, it is difficult for local photographers to see others arrive from the outside with better equipment and connections to the art world and walk off with credit for “revealing” the blight of Detroit.
36 Artists in particular, who have embraced the city, often feel vulnerable 26 • Beautiful Terrible Ruins and betrayed by what they perceive as bad press. ” At local forums on urban problems and at showings of city films, a similar complaint is often heard: What about all the good things? There are indeed many good things in the city, including its do-it-yourself spirit; its neighborhood initiatives; its waterfront development, art institutions, colleges, and universities; its galleries, museums, opera, symphony, art, dance, theater, food, music, performance, and literary scenes; and its hardworking, dedicated citizens.
1 By construing Detroit as a city whose problems can’t be solved because they are “cultural” — meaning that the population is poor and black — Will not only absolves the real agents of decline, the corporations and their political spokesmen, but also justifies harsh fiscal austerities imposed on the city and paves the way for such austerities to be imposed on other cities once the precedent has been established in Detroit. Since the 1970s, following the policies of Chicago School economist Milton Friedman, capitalism has taken a turn toward what has become best known as neoliberalism (but is also known as free trade and globalization).
