‘Black Friday: The Collapse of the American Shopping Mall’ is a photo book by Cleveland-based photographer Seph Lawless that documents abandoned shopping malls in the United States.
Once beacons of the ‘American Dream’, the malls shown in the book have been reduced to empty atriums and halls filled with dead foliage, shattered tiles and broken windows.
According to Lawless, he said, “The goal was to show the world a different side of America. A vulnerable side. I think an abandoned mall is symbolic of the economic decline of America and is a true indication of what happens when cities like Cleveland suffers massive population loss due to loss of manufacturing jobs.”
The book is priced at US$99 and can be purchased here.
[via Laughing Squid and Daily Mail, images via Seph Lawless]