Andrew Moore

"Like William Carlos Williams' poems in Spring and All, Andrew Moore's photographs honor what is most ignored and despised among us, and they do so in such a straightforward manner that unless we're attentive we can miss the art. When I write that these pictures are a revelation, I've not begun to describe their effect on me nor have I begun to describe the profundity of the debt I owe them. I had thought my city no longer mattered, and I--as one of its poets--had been writing for 65 years about next to nothing, that my life's work was only a footnote to the history of American idiocy and hubris. I had thought I knew what it meant to be from Detroit, to be of Detroit, to be Detroit. In truth I didn't know the half of it."

Philip Levine, excerpted from his essay, "Nobody's Detroit," published in Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled.

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Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled Text 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
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DAMIANI/AKRON ART MUSEUM
ISBN: 9788862081184
$50.00 | In stock

Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled, Limited Edition Text by 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 postwar decline of the American auto industry. Today, whole
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DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862081405
$750.00 | In stock

Andrew Moore: Cuba Text by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. American photographer Andrew Moore began photographing in Cuba in 1998, and over the next fourteen years he made ten further visits, working to reveal the many facets of the island’s unique
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DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862082525
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Andrew Moore

In Andrew Moore's stunning new book of photographs, Detroit Disassembled, essayist Philip Levine writes, "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 rages of man and nature confer an unexpected dignity upon the subjects of his camera." Featured image is the former Ford Motor Company headquarters, Highland Park.

Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled, Limited Edition

Text by Philip Levine.
Published by Damiani

No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the postwar decline of the American auto industry. 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. This limited edition of Detroit Disassembled comes with a signed archival print photograph by Moore (15 x 12 inches) and is housed in a linen cloth box.

ANDREW MOORE: DETROIT DISASSEMBLED, LIMITED EDITION
$750.00 | In Stock: Order now or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.

Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled

Text by Andrew Moore, Philip Levine.
Published by Damiani/Akron Art Museum

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.

ANDREW MOORE: DETROIT DISASSEMBLED
$50.00 | In Stock: Order now or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.