Andrew Moore
Model T Headquarters, Highland Park, Detroit

Model T Headquarters, Highland Park, Detroit

© Andrew Moore

Model T Headquarters, Highland Park, Detroit
Model T Headquarters, Highland Park, Detroit
ArtistAmerican, born 1957
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Model T Headquarters, Highland Park, Detroit
  • from the series Detroit Disassembled
Date2009, printed 2010
Place depictedDetroit, Michigan, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 35 7/8 × 45 5/8 in. (91.1 × 115.9 cm)
Sheet: 60 1/16 × 53 1/16 in. (152.5 × 134.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of John MacMahon in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2014.902
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Once the epicenter of Model T production and the birthplace of the assembly line, Ford Motor Company’s Highland Park facility sat abandoned for over four decades before Andrew Moore photographed the former executive offices in 2009. Moore drew out the surreal qualities of a room now characterized by the degradation of its once-grand architectural fabric and by new layers of organic growth. His picture of the former corporate headquarters suggests not only the deindustrialization and decline of American manufacturing in the 20th century but also new possibilities for life atop the ruins of American capitalism.


ProvenanceThe artist; [Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York]; purchased by John A. MacMahon, 2010; given to MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on sheet verso in ink:
"MODEL T HEADQUARTERS"
HIGHLAND PARK 2009
ED 3/5
[signature] 2010
Signed on sheet verso in ink

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