Ian Ference
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Ian Ference is a photographer, historian, and essayist based out of New York. For over a decade, he has studied America's modern ruins, with a focus on demystifying institutional abandonments. He sporadically publishes photoessays on historic structures on his blog, The Kingston Lounge, and has written and spoken on a variety of topics peripheral to this body of work.

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On 'Ruin Porn'

Posted January 31, 2011 | 18:03:07 (EST)

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Loew's Kings Wonder Theatre, view from mezzanine level, 2010. Ruin porn?

In his recent essay "Detroitism," John Patrick Leary responds to two photographic collections, by Andrew Moore and by Marchand and Meffre, detailing the abandoned buildings of Detroit with a question: "What...

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