The Last Days Of Gourmet

by Joe Coscarelli | 10:46 am, November 3rd, 2009

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Last month brought the news that struggling publisher Condé Nast would be closing a few of its titles altogether, including the much-loved Gourmet. To mark the end of the food mag’s life, associate art director Kevin DeMaria decided to document the dour proceedings, turning the closing into a memorial ceremony of sorts, which he dubbed The Last Days of Gourmet.

DeMaria, whose personal website can be found here, had the following comment in addition to his somber pictures of boxes and empty hallways:

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DeMaria’s shots have a detached sadness to them, capturing the antiseptic side of office life in a failing industry. It’s a representative freeze-frame — relics, if you will — of a tough time that will be remembered as such thanks to those, like DeMaria, who have documented the decline from inside.

>>>NEXT: Check out a few more of DeMaria’s shots from the end of Gourmet…
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Nachi

No demand exists anymore. America is completely void of any culture, class, dignity, manners, even basic social graces. Such elegant things have been simply BRED out of the masses. One generation teaches its lack of knowledge to the next – and onward & downward it plunges. One need only look and listen. Social emptiness reigns supreme. Duh.