继《底特律的没落》成功之后，多产的法国摄影师二人组马钱德（Marchand）/墨菲（Meffre）拍摄了新项目《电影院》，痛彻地记录了全美国数百个电影院的破烂遗迹。在娱乐业全盛时期建造的宏伟的电影院，遍布美国各个城市小镇，现在被遗弃、空置、腐烂、重新利用。自2005年以来，备受赞誉的摄影二人组马钱德/墨菲一直在穿越美国，访问这些20世纪早期的遗迹。在数百张色彩丰富的图片中，他们捕捉到了剧院外部丰富的建筑多样性，从新文艺复兴到新哥特式，新艺术到包豪斯，新拜占庭到新艺术运动。他们还走进剧院，拍摄即将消失的文化共性——摇摇欲坠的石膏、一排排破碎的碎绒布座椅、剥落的油漆、失效的设备、废弃的特许摊位，以及它们转变为宾果大厅、仓库、健身中心、跳蚤市场、停车场、杂货店的过程。摄影二人组使用大画幅相机，拍摄了景观外景和特写。本书以超大尺寸呈现，采用优质油墨和局部上光工艺精致印刷，将成为一本现代经典。

Following on the heels of their incredibly successful The Ruins of Detroit, this major new project by the prolific French photographer duo Marchand/Meffre, poignantly eulogises and celebrates the tattered remains of hundreds of movie theatres across America. They are in every American city and town - grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005, the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been travelling across the US to visit these early 20th-

century relics. In hundreds of lushly coloured images, they have captured the rich architectural diversity of the theaters' exteriors, from neo renaissance to neo-Gothic, art nouveau to Bauhaus, and neo-

Byzantine to Jugendstill. They have also stepped inside to capture the commonalities of a dying culture - crumbling plaster, rows of broken crushed-velvet seats, peeling paint, defunct equipment, and abandoned concession stands - as well as their transformation into bingo halls, warehouses, fitness centers, flea markets, parking lots, and grocery stores. Using a large format camera, the photographers' carefully composed images range from landscape exteriors to starkly beautiful closeups. Presented here in a gorgeous oversized format, exquisitely printed with superior inks and spot varnish, this illustrated eulogy for the American movie palace is certain to become a modern-day classic.