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Steve Davis, via Lens

As a sort of continuation of my post two weeks ago about The Goggles' Welcome to Pine Point, I want to focus this week on Steve Davis' As American Falls. This series of photos documents American Falls, the now-declining Idaho town where Davis grew up. Davis describes the town's death as "as slow as it is unspectacular," and these images produce a feeling of stillness that differs in interesting ways from the retroactive intimacy that the Goggles' project produces.

At a glance, this map created by Chris Wilson at Slate.com is pretty terrifying with its Strangelove-esque red mushrooms evaporating the United States' industrial centers.

Image captured from Slate.com