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AVAILABILITY: In stock "What we see taking place in Andrew Moore's photographs is no doubt happening everywhere, but it would appear that in Detroit the process has such extraordinary velocity it seems to have stepped out of time to become the sole condition of being. These photographs are among the most beautiful I've ever seen: their calm in the face of the ravages of man and nature confer an unexpected dignity upon the subjects of his camera, the very dignity I had assumed daily life had robbed them of. In Alleyway, East Side, my eye settles on a small sheet of ice that has formed in a wheelbarrow and moves from the ice to the portions of the twigs sticking up though trapped in the ice, and then from the twigs to the barrow's single visible handle and then to the black trunk of a tree that snakes its way upward through the half-light trapped between two buildings. The trunk continues upward toward...toward what it doesn't know, and yet it continues to rise."Philip Levine, excerpted from his essay to Detroit Disassembled. | | |
| | | DAMIANI/AKRON ART MUSEUMAndrew Moore: Detroit DisassembledText by Andrew Moore, Philip Levine.
 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.
Reviewing Andrew Moore's Detroit Disassembled in The New York Times online, Holly Brubach writes, "The sight of fluorescent moss carpeting a floor or birch trees sprouting from a bed of rotting books signifies for him not--or not only--a boomtown’s tragic collapse but an occasion to devise a new urban paradigm, one that incorporates vast swaths of woods and farmland. Moore’s Detroit, though sparsely populated, is not a ghost town. An East Side man identified as Algernon stares out from his ramshackle porch, his dog perched on the stairs. Schoolchildren pause in the middle of a Highland Park street and solemnly meet the camera’s gaze. Seven friends in hoodies and jeans drink beer on a Foxtown rooftop. It’s harder to dismiss Detroit and its fate in the face of these reminders that the city isn’t dead, that, however deserted its neighborhoods, not everyone has given up and walked away." Featured image is from Detroit Disassembled. | D.A.P. CATALOG SPRING 2010 p. 177 | Alex Galan | Date: 5/14/2010 On Thursday, May 13, the Strand Bookstore hosted a conversation between photographer Andrew Moore and poet Philip Levine on Moore's new book Detroit Disassembled. Levine began by reading a few poems inspired by his hometown of Detroit, and told stories of his youth there. Moore described his experiences in today's Detroit, illustrated with slides of images from the book, and CSPAN was there recording the whole thing for an episode of BookTV. continue to blog
Allie Pisarro-Grant | Date: 1/5/2011 D.A.P. is excited to announce that one of our favorite titles from our Spring 2010 Catalog, Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled, has received a 2011 Michigan Notable Books Award. continue to blog
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| | | OF RELATED INTEREST Urban Ecology Edited by Kyong Park. Essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lebbeus Woods, Philipp Oswalt, Stefano Boeri, Michael Sorkins, Gutierrez + Portefaix, Jerry Herron, Sean Snyder, Marjetica Potrc, et al. Foreword by Stephen Vogel. Introduction by Peter Lang. Under the confluence of nomadic economics, technologies and industries--commonly known as “suburban sprawl”--the city of Detroit, segregated and isolated, constitutes one of the great monuments to decay by a Modernist city. It is perhaps the >>more
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