Talking Shops: Detroit Commercial Folk Art
Photographs by David Clements • Foreword by Bill Harris • Afterword by Jerry Herron
David Clements captures mural facades that transform what might have been a typical urban landscape into a canvas for some of the city’s most vibrant folk art. With more than 130 full-color photographs, this book uncovers such treasures as the “Mr. Foote Hand Car Wash,” and the “Kill Them Dead” roach exterminator. Yet for all their whimsy, these subjects were created by artists who have used brilliant colors, meticulous words, and aggressive messages that seem to talk, if not shout, to passersby.
Published by Wayne State University Press.
176 pages
David Clements captures mural facades that transform what might have been a typical urban landscape into a canvas for some of the city’s most vibrant folk art. With more than 130 full-color photographs, this book uncovers such treasures as the “Mr. Foote Hand Car Wash,” and the “Kill Them Dead” roach exterminator. Yet for all their whimsy, these subjects were created by artists who have used brilliant colors, meticulous words, and aggressive messages that seem to talk, if not shout, to passersby.
Published by Wayne State University Press.
176 pages
