Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled (Signed First Edition)

Andrew Moore (photographs); Philip Levine (essay)

ISBN 10: 8862081189 / ISBN 13: 9788862081184

Edité par Damiani/Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 2010

A propos de cet article

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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled (Signed First Edition)
• Éditeur: Damiani/Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 8862081189
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788862081184
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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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.

À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Moore was born in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1957 and lives in New York. His large format photography has been widely exhibited and is represented in numerous museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Israel Museum. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, and Judith Rothschild Foundation. His film How to Draw a Bunny won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Moore's previous books include Inside Havana (2002), Governors Island (2005), and Russia: Beyond Utopia (2005). Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1928 and divides his Lime between New York and California. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry including The Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award; New Selected Poems (1991); Ashes: Poems New and Old (1979), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for Poetry; and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.