
Detroit
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2009
- Specifications
- Softcover
46 pages
7.875 x 10.5 in
First edition
Edition of 500 copies
Design by Francesca Grassi
A publication produced on different newsprint paper stocks, using the industrial ruins of the city as a backdrop for a portrait of two teenage noise musicians. Marcopoulos's video documenting their performance featured in that year's Whitney Biennial, while the date-stamped stills in the book, shot simultaneously, flesh out the surroundings: snapshots of the two musicians with guitars in a bedroom hung with posters, and a close view of their effects pedals on a brightly painted floor. The images weave a loose narrative around familiar themes: domesticity, alienation and the markers of youthful identity.