(1681) Poverty Scenes, Michigan Ave., Detroit, 1950s

Homeless men sleep on a tarp in a vacant lot, Detroit, Michigan.

NOTE: Part of an expose series on Detroit’s “Skid Row” along Michigan Ave. between Washington Blvd. and Fifth Street. Spina spent ten days living on the Row to document the way people lived.

(1681) Poverty Scenes, Michigan Ave., Detroit, 1950s
Date: 
CIrca 1950s
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Photograph
Photographer: 
Tony Spina