Today I stumbled over a great Project/Blog. New York City based photographer Matt Lambros has a fable for abandoned buildings and the fascinating beauty they omit. So he started a ‘photographic documentation of the effects of years of neglect and decay in some of America’s greatest theaters.’ The results are hauntingly sad and beautiful at the same time. As a filmmaker and cineaste, seeing those places often just left by themselves to silently die and decay makes me want to cry.

However, the pictures are extremely beautiful and you get a feeling of the glory in which those theaters once shined. Those magic moments of motion picture history and the great divas and movie stars twinkling from the silver screen (and of course the performing arts). The pictures are a fascinating travel back in time to when going to the movies was still an event, when the star system just began to flourish and when theaters were movie palaces, most of them owned by the just emerged Hollywood studios.

The picture used for this article gives you an impression on what to expect from Matt’s blog. So if I got your interest stirred up, go and visit: After the Final Curtain.