Julia Solis is a renowned photographer whose pictures of decaying theaters will be published in her upcoming book "Stages of Decay."
The
unsettling images show 100 defunct stages from around the US and Europe. The buildings range from community centers to movie theaters to hospitals, but they all show crumbling edifices that Solis manages to make hauntingly beautiful.
Some of the deteriorating spaces still exist while others have since been destroyed. But either way, Solis makes the viewer feel as though they are the last to witness what was once a grand and glorious stage.
Palace Theatre in Gary, Indiana was built in 1925 and served as a movie theater until it was abandoned in 1972 after the town's US Steel plant went into decline.
Detroit's Eastown Theater was built in 1931, but degenerated in the '60s and '70s into a notorious drug den and rave site. It has stood abandoned since the late 1990s.
The Michigan Theater in Detroit was built in 1925 in the French Renaissance style, and was extremely lavish. It has since been gutted and turned into a parking garage.
The Thomas Edison School in Pennsylvania was originally built in 1905, and has sat vacant since 2002. This year, it was announced the building would be completely demolished.
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