The Detroit African World Festival, hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum, was a wonderful celebration of culture and heritage!

In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, came up with what forever changed the way we see, experience, and remember the world and its history. It was the birth of a camera that took the first photograph on a piece of paper coated with tar of the view from his window at Le Gras. Of course, it looked nothing even remotely similar to what we think of as a camera.

Remembering the magician's final curtain call and Detroit death 90 years ago.

In 1969, a group of friends travelled from Detroit to Chicago to pick up an ancient, cumbersome Harris offset printing press from a second-hand printer dealer. Back in Detroit, another group scouted a space on the ground floor of an industrial building on Michigan Avenue. Darkroom equipment and supp

I keep coming back to Detroit. It’s bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there’s an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photographer, Dave Jordano. I could browse through endless…

This is the first exhibit to focus on the time Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo spent in Detroit. It's a big step for the Detroit Institute of Arts as it recovers from the tumult of the city's bankruptcy.

See what history hides with these amazing snaps from our past.

Buy wall art of this image titled: The Bourse, Hamburg, Germany, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "17492". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2002713679 SKU #: 94707D05 Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: The Bourse, Hamburg, Germany

Exhibition dates: 2nd November – 21st December 2013 Enrico Natali (American, b. 1933) Spectators at a public demonstration, Detroit, 1968 1968 Gelatin silver print …

Buy wall art of this image titled: Old Town Hall, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "16425". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2002696151 SKU #: 9030FE4D Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: Old Town Hall, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Buy wall art of this image titled: The jetty, Yarmouth, England, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Tags England--Great Yarmouth. Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10247". Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2002708288 SKU #: 7274D626 Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: The jetty, Yarmouth, England

Albums, polka-dots and teddy bears aren't typically what you see as exterior house decor, but they've become a staple on Heidelberg St. in Detroit as part…

185 Lafayette Ave, Detroit.

Buy wall art of this image titled: Village near Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Holland, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Tags Netherlands--Dordrecht. Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. "8658". Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in the Netherlands in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2001698784 SKU #: 30699381 Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: Village near Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Holland

Buy wall art of this image titled: Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1670". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2002720565 SKU #: 81948C9B Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

It wasn't just a basketball spectacle, it marked Detroit as a whole, adding to the city's national reputation as a rough and tumble place, a scary outpost where fans weren't even safe in the stands.

An American artist living in Berlin has rescued Parks' condemned former residence and is opening it to the public in Berlin.

Buy wall art of this image titled: Bray, I. County Wicklow, Ireland, from the Vintage Photochrom Postcards Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now! Tags Ireland--County Wicklow. Notes Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12029". Forms part of: Views of Ireland in the Photochrom print collection. Original Date: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Formats: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Original Publisher: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Reference #: 2002717309 SKU #: 590A1DDC Part of Collection: Vintage Photochrom Postcards Link to original at the Library of Congress: Bray, I. County Wicklow, Ireland