Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled (Signed First Edition)

Andrew Moore (photographs); Philip Levine (essay)

ISBN 10: 8862081189 / ISBN 13: 9788862081184

Published by Damiani/Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 2010

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First printing. A pristine, unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). A new copy in a new jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new. SIGNED BY ANDREW MOORE on title page, along with date (2010) and place (Strand Bookstore), as pictured. PHOTOGRAPHY. Ferry-Art. Seller Inventory # 10-2015-415

Bibliographic Details

Title: Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled (Signed ...

Publisher: Damiani/Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in which the ordinary flow of time-or the forward march of the assembly line-appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse. For Moore, who throughout his career has been drawn to all that contradicts or seems to threaten America's postwar self-image (his previous projects include portraits of Cuba and Soviet Russia), Detroit's decline affirms the carnivorousness of our earth, as it seeps into and overruns the buildings of a city that once epitomized humankind's supposed supremacy. In Detroit Disassembled, Moore locates both dignity and tragedy in the city's decline, among postapocalyptic landscapes of windowless grand hotels, vast barren factory floors, collapsing churches, offices carpeted in velvety moss and entire blocks reclaimed by prairie grass. Beyond their jawdropping content, Moore's photographs inevitably raise the uneasy question of the long-term future of a country in which such extreme degradation can exist unchecked.

Review:

Although there is plenty of rubble in "Detroit Disassembled," Mr. Moore's work usually escapes the narrow constraints of the genre. His large-scale prints--some up to 5 feet by 6 feet -- are sumptuous and painterly, rich in texture and color: the emerald carpet of moss growing on the floor of Henry Ford's office at the Model T plant, the pumpkin-orange walls of a vandalized classroom at Cass Technical High School, the crimson panels of a former F.B.I. shooting range. Photos like those of the enormous rolling hall at Ford's River Rouge plant and a sunset over the Bob-Lo Island boat dock were inspired, Mr. Moore said, by 19th-century American landscape painters like Frederic Church and Martin Johnson Heade.--Mike Rubin "The New York Times "

Andrew Moore's 'Detroit Disassembled' (Damiani) concentrates primarly on the factories that formerly drove the economy, now falling apart or gone back to nature, like the Ford office whose floor has grown over with moss.--Editors "The Wall Street Journal "