A broken piano, a dilapidated staircase, a chair half standing on two
bent legs surrounded by layers of history peeling from the wallpaper of
an abandoned house. The chilling air of an abandoned church, or a
desolated factory, with the faint signs of the human sounds now trapped
in the detritus of lost interiors. In Michigan, in Italy, in Russia,
Japan, in China, the lost dreams of a teaming human horde are captured
in this evocative exploration of abandoned buildings, the achievements
of humankind struck down by calamity or neglect, then over-run by the
ancient forces of time and nature, as the planet earth moves slowly to
regain its supremacy against the noisy, mechanical clatter of the human
species. The incredible new book explores the half-life of abandoned
buildings and the sad beauty of desolation.