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Art and ArchitectureReveal Your DetroitAn Intimate Look at a Great AmericanCityA Community Engagement Project Led by theDetroit Institute of ArtsBradford FrostThrough a unique partnership model with forty-five communityorganizations, the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2012 communityphotography exhibit “Reveal Your Detroit” offered Detroit residents the chance to respond to the Museum’scontemporary photography exhibition Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010. Using disposablecameras, each participant captured people, places, and things that make their lives in Detroit distinctive,inspired by the questions “what does your Detroit look like?” and “how do you want others to see it?” Inthe final display, over 1,700 images rotated across 60 digital photo frames, from a selection of over 10,000submitted. For this volume, author Bradford Frost has selected 200 images from the exhibit to showcasethe perspectives of hundreds of residents and the places they presented, from the gritty to the sublime.Reveal Your Detroit is composed of two main sections—The Authentic City and Detroit’s VitalTransformation—photo essays that evoke Detroit’s spirited resolve and respond to the dominant imageryof the city in decline. Photographers visit favorite Detroit sites like Eastern Market, the Detroit Riverfront,the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Comerica Park, Michigan Central Station, andthe Fox Theater; but they also highlight lesser known spots, like the cobblestone streets of West Canfield inMidtown, Hostel Detroit in Corktown, and the Central Business District Community Garden Downtown.Photos highlight Detroit’s vibrant street and folk art, the diversity of the city’s natural environment, andthe vitality of residents and businesses in a range of city neighborhoods. Reveal Your Detroit is not only abeautiful gift book and record of a transforming American city, it is also a testament to the possibilitiesof creative partnership between grassroots organizations and larger cultural institutions.September 2013 / 10 x 8.5 / 184 pp / 200 illus / ISBN 978-0-8143-3963-3, $24.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3964-0 eA Painted Turtle bookThe Buildings of DetroitA HistoryW. Hawkins FerryWith a new foreword by John GallagherFirst published in 1968, The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. HawkinsFerry is the definitive resource on the architecture of Detroit and itsadjacent communities, from pioneering times to the end of the twentiethcentury. Ferry based his impressive volume on thirteen years of meticulousresearch, interviews with many prominent architects, and hundreds ofphotos commissioned specifically for the book. Ferry revised The Buildingsof Detroit in 1980, adding the Renaissance Center and other modernworks, and this re-released version presents the revised edition addingonly a new foreword by John Gallagher.The Buildings of Detroit spans from the early 1700s, when the city was a fur-trading post in the wilderness,to its more contemporary position as the capital of the automotive industry and a major industrialcity. Along the way, Ferry offers glimpses of the log cabins of early explorers and soldiers, the Victorianmansions of lumber barons, and the Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills residences of motor magnates.He traces the development of new building techniques that gave rise to the American skyscraper and themodern factory. Ferry details all of downtown’s landmark buildings, including many that are no longerstanding, and visits fascinating neighborhood structures like movie theaters, hotels, shopping centers,and apartment buildings. In each chapter, readers will meet the visionary architects and clients whoseforesight and initiative helped shape the fabric of one of America’s great cities. The Buildings of Detroitalso includes a selected chronology, maps, references, notes, an extensive index, and 475 illustrations.Previously out of print and difficult to find, this re-released classic will be treasured by Detroit historybuffs and architectural historians.2012 / 8.5 x 11.25 / 512 pp / 475 illus / ISBN 978-0-8143-1665-8, $99.00s cloth(800) 978-7323 wsupress.wayne.edu 3