Retro malls live forever in rad new photo bookÂ
The Decline of Mall Civilization is photographer Michael Galinsky?s second ode to retro American mall culture. | All images by Michael Galinsky
Decline of Mall Civilization captures nostalgia of late ?80s shopping centers The Decline of Mall Civilization, Michael Galinsky?s ode to retro American mall culture, may at first glance seem more focused on shoppers and fashion: images of food courts, video games, and blown-out perms. But the photographer and filmmaker says the underlying story is one of our cities and suburbs and how they?ve changed.
Galinsky?s second project that draws from a cache of photos he took of shopping centers in the late ?80s chronicles a cultural and urban turning point. White flight, industrial decline, and the abandonment of cities all conspired to make malls thrive 30 years ago, he says. But even the privatized, commercialized, often crass vision of community space found in malls decades ago can trip a nostalgia switch in readers who grew up going to these shopping centers, he says, but who have now become used to the shuttered storefronts and dead malls found in many commercial districts. ?[Looking at these photos] it?s like you?re plugging in an old drive, and the computer has to kind of work to pull it up,? he says. ?That energy changes and transforms it, and sparks a different part of your brain.?
Michael Galinsky
Michael Galinsky
Michael Galinsky
Galinsky released his firs...
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