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Pickle masters meet potato chip vets for a briny snack sensation

Anyone familiar with McClure’s pickles or our favorite Bloody Mary mix will like where the two brothers’ fascination with pickles has led them now. Drawing on the flavors of the tasty brines that started it all, the latest to get the McClure treatment are bags of crunchy potato chips.

Detroit’s veteran snack food company, Better Made, provided the perfect chips as a base and McClure adds their blend of spices that pack the potatoes with their distinct punch of pickle flavor. Sprinkled with the right amount of mouth-watering seasonings the chips trick your tongue into tasting zesty pickles before dissolving into the savory potato taste.

It’s not just the flavors that reflect McClure’s specialty product, but the crinkle cut also evokes the playfully familiar form pickles often take. The chips are certified vegetarian, vegan and Kosher and are trans fat-free. Each bag features McClure’s standard bold graphic and is color coded according to flavor—red for spicy pickle and green for garlic dill pickle.

Look out for McClure’s potato chips in mid-July 2011 locally in New York City and Detroit. Ohio and other pickle-friendly locations will follow, and will be available in online shop in August 2011. Prices are around $1 in Michigan and $1.75 elsewhere for a 2.5 oz bag.

All photos by Cool Hunting

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Almost a decade after emigrating to the United States in the ’40s, Swiss photographer Robert Frank decided to document the reality of his adopted country’s then-current condition—a nation as he saw it obsessed with money and struggling with the divisions among race and class. Of the 12 cities he visited in 1955, the particularly moving images of Detroit make up the current exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Frank spent several days exploring the Motor City, visiting the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in the suburb of Dearborn, as well as the Gratiot Drive-In, and Belle Isle park. Capturing images of classic mid-century American life with his Leica camera, Frank compiled the pictures along with others from his journey in a groundbreaking photography book titled “The Americans” in 1958.

The show includes the eight photos from his iconic book, as well as a large collection of rare photos, many never before seen. With no catalog for the exhibit and no photography allowed inside the galleries, a trip to the slowly deteriorating city is the best way to understand Frank’s series of “gritty, dark and full of motion and emotion” photos.

“Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955” runs through 3 July 2010 at Detroit Institute of Arts. See more images after the jump.

via one of CH’s fave photographers
Lisa Kereszi for Daylight Magazine

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Lisa Kereszi

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Sakamaki is a Japanese photographer based in New York, who graduated from Columbia and has been producing incredible work since the late 80s.His work deals with social and political issues for the most part. His shots from Detroit after its huge economic downfall are incredibly bleak and totally stunning. He also recently covered the situation in Haiti, and was one of the few photographers in my opinion that managed to simultaneously capture the huge amount of grief amongst victims, while also portraying them with dignity and strength. Check out more of his work on his site.