Julia Solis is a renowned photographer whose pictures of decaying theaters will be published in her upcoming book "Stages of Decay."
The unsettling images show 100 defunct stages from around the US and Europe. The buildings range from community centers to movie theaters to hospitals, but they all show crumbling edifices that Solis manages to make hauntingly beautiful.
Some of the deteriorating spaces still exist while others have since been destroyed. But either way, Solis makes the viewer feel as though they are the last to witness what was once a grand and glorious stage.
Palace Theatre in Gary, Indiana was built in 1925 and served as a movie theater until it was abandoned in 1972 after the town's US Steel plant went into decline.
Source: Palace Theatre Gary Indiana
Detroit's Eastown Theater was built in 1931, but degenerated in the '60s and '70s into a notorious drug den and rave site. It has stood abandoned since the late 1990s.
Source: Historic Detroit
The Hubert Elementary School building in Brightmoor, Michigan was built in 1921 and shut down in 2005. This is what remains of the kids' theater.
Source: Detroiturbex.com
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