Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Mary Wilson lived out their early lives in the Brewster Projects in Detroit, the first federally funded public housing for African Americans. Unfortunately, the abode of these legends of the lyric is falling to pieces. One writer and photographer has compiled an affecting portrait of the projects, which speaks to a larger crisis, and which calls to mind the Katrina photos of Robert Polidori. It resonates with Polidori’s photo montage as documentation of destruction, an iteration perhaps of a former event, but one we have the ill-boding luxury of regarding in real time.
