“This is a look at the last remaining spaces, cities and design from America’s very particular version of modernism — hopeful, rational, unsustainable.” So explains Tag Christof (@americaisdead), an American photographer who has spent the last decade moving back and forth between Europe and the United States, alternately studying architecture and design, interning at a fashion photo agency, and now working as an art director and editor in Richmond, Virginia. On weekends, Tag sets out with his vintage cameras to see how far he can drive, as he records relics of the late 20th century American economy, exploring a landscape of languishing shopping malls, motels, and drive-ins. “Especially with the malls and their clean lines and quietly crumbling façades, you sometimes have to look quite closely to see that they’re ruins.” He adds, “the things I photograph are the direct result of a system that defines progress only in economic terms.” Photo by @americaisdead