Wherever you walk here it is hunks of buildings standing up without roofs or sides, and people living in them. Except the Ghetto, where it is just a great plain of bricks, with twisted beds, and bath tubs and sofas, pictures in frames, trunks, millions of things sticking out among the bricks. I can't understand how it could have been done...It is something so vicious I can't believe it.
— John Vachon, on Warsaw, 1946. Quoted in Savage Continent by Keith Lowe.
— John Vachon, on Warsaw, 1946. Quoted in Savage Continent by Keith Lowe.
Keep in mind that telling whether a work is using Scenery Gorn and Scenery Porn can sometimes be confusing. Especially in settings where the abandoned ruins have long since been reclaimed by the forces of nature.
by tramptraf March 28, 2018