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: CUBA, LIMITED EDITION
Introduction by Joel Smith. Text by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862082587 | US $750.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2013
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ANDREW MOORE: CUBA
Introduction by Joel Smith. Text by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862082525 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2012
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ANDREW MOORE: CUBA
DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862082365 | US $150.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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ANDREW MOORE: DETROIT DISASSEMBLED, LIMITED EDITION
Text by Philip Levine.
DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862081405 | US $750.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2010
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ANDREW MOORE: DETROIT DISASSEMBLED
Text by Andrew Moore, Philip Levine.
DAMIANI/AKRON ART MUSEUM
ISBN: 9788862081184 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2010
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GOVERNORS ISLAND: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA KERESZI & ANDREW MOORE
Edited by Anne Wehr. Introduction by Tom Eccles, Susan Freedman and James Lima.
PUBLIC ART FUND
ISBN: 9780960848836 | US $15.95
Pub Date: 1/15/2005
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Andrew Moore

In Andrew Moore's 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: Cuba, Limited Edition

Introduction by Joel Smith. Text by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
Published by Damiani

Published in an edition of 50 copies, this special limited edition of Cuba includes a numbered and signed photograph by Andrew Moore, and is issued in a cloth slipcase. Taken from 1998 to 2012, the photographs in Cuba depict a series of poignant interiors that display the changing fortunes of the country over its 500-year history. Originally published as Inside Havana in 2002 to wide acclaim, this new version expands that book with a reconfigured layout, finer and larger reproductions, older photographs never before seen or published and new work made specifically for this edition. One of the themes introduced in this version is the contrast between the frayed patinas of Cuban homes versus the unspoiled beauty of the island’s nature itself.

Andrew Moore: Cuba

Introduction by Joel Smith. Text by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
Published by Damiani

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 character and life. In 2002, he published some of this work in Inside Havana, which is now out of print. This new edition includes many of Moore’s older classic images but reconceives its predecessor with a new layout and finer, larger reproductions. Cuba also features many older photographs never previously published, as well as new photographs made specifically for this edition. The afterword was especially commissioned for this edition from Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, one of Cuba’s leading independent bloggers.
Working with a large format camera, Moore insightfully records the shifting fortunes of Cuba, in superb photographs full of painterly light and dynamic color. His images span a tremendous variety of subjects, ranging from humble interiors to magnificent modernism, as well as portraits and landscapes. One theme introduced in this revised version is the contrast between the frayed patinas of Cuban homes and the great, unspoiled beauty of the island’s nature. Cuba is a stirring portrait of a country isolated from the globalized world, overflowing with its own remarkable riches.
The photographs of Andrew Moore (born 1957) are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Library of Congress, the Israel Museum, the George Eastman House and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Andrew Moore: Cuba

Published by Damiani

This signed and numbered deluxe edition reintroduces the Cuban photographs of Andrew Moore (born 1957). Taken from 1998 to 2012, Cuba offers a series of poignant interiors that display the changing fortunes of the country over its five-hundred-year history, with portraits and landscapes that hint at changes coming to this island nation. Originally published as Inside Havana in 2002 to wide acclaim, this new version expands that book with a reconfigured layout, finer and larger reproductions, older photographs never before seen or published, as well as new work made specifically for this edition. One of the themes introduced in this version is the contrast between the frayed patinas of Cuban homes versus the great, unspoiled beauty of the island’s nature itself. It is a stirring portrait of a country isolated from the globalized world, overflowing in remarkable riches.

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

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.

Governors Island: Photographs By Lisa Kereszi & Andrew Moore

Edited by Anne Wehr. Introduction by Tom Eccles, Susan Freedman and James Lima.
Published by Public Art Fund

In early 2003, Governor's island, a former major U.S. army base, was returned to the people of New York for a dollar. The island is beautifully documented here by photographers Lisa Kereszi and Andrew Moore, who show the casual American landscape, express the history of the place--both public and private--and reveal the crossroads at which it stands today.