CITY

"…is not every square inch of our cities the scene of a crime?" ~ Walter Benjamin

In the starkly melancholic photographs of City, forsaken factories, abandoned transit stations, and decaying infrastructure are exposed as cracked myths and failed dreams of urbanity. Herzog approaches sites in Niland, California, New Orleans, Bolivia, Germany, Latvia, and Austria as an artist-archaeologist, visually sifting through rust and rubble for forgotten human hopes and plans. As a chronicle of defeat by time and the elements, the series questions the fundamental sustainability of the City.