The life and death of the American mall is a familiar story by now. A few decades ago, these shrines to consumerism dotted suburbia, only to be denied relevance by a push back towards city centers. But few images express the scale of this trend as much as those in Black Friday: The Collapse of the American Mall.
The photos that fill this new coffee table book by Seph Lawless are arrestingly empty. That's probably because one of the malls therein, Ohio's Randall Park Mall, was once the largest malls in America. "[Mall culture] was such an intricate part of the city that the town is represented by the two shopping bags appearing in the municipal seal," Lawless explains in the book's introduction.
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