7.0 Andrew Moore’s series Detroit Disassembled depicts Detroit’s decline as an industrial dynamo by “affirming the carnivorous nature of our earth, as it seeps into and overruns the buildings that once epitomized humankind’s supposed supremacy.” Abandoned and neglected, the Daliesque clock suggests that time has taken a bizarre twist and been thrown into reverse, and the ever-moving assembly line that once produced shiny automobiles now generates decaying ruins. This raises troubling issues about the future of a country in which such degradation continues unchecked while its wealth is drained on foreign wars. Moore photographed this scene with ...
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