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Dirt Meridian (Limited Edition)

Dirt Meridian (Limited Edition)

Limited Edition

by Andrew Moore
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2016

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This Collector's Edition includes the book Dirt Meridian and this print is signed and numbered by Andrew Moore: Cash Meier Barn, 2012, Archival inkjet print, 25.5 x 27.7 cm. The photograph has been printed in 2016 in a limited edition of 25 copies plus 3 Artist Proofs.

In this book by the acclaimed photographer of Detroit Disassembled, Andrew Moore takes to the air to create an intimate vision of the High Plains. The "Meridian" of the title refers to the 100th meridian, the longitude that neatly bisects the country and has long been considered the dividing line between the fertile green East and dry brown West of the United States. Much of the meridian traverses America's "flyover country", those remote and sparsely populated landscapes with a long history of repeated drought and failed dreams. Yet other parts of the meridian overlap bustling and contentious zones, such as the heavily fracked Bakken formation in North Dakota. Dirt Meridian interweaves both these stories together: the enduring myths and rich history of a place where so little meets the eye, alongside a portrayal of those who continue to live amidst its vast and severe magnificence.

Many photographs in this book were made using a specially modified camera in a low flying plane; the resulting pictures, with their literal bird eye's view, offer the viewer a unique perspective of this quintessential "American" landscape of no conspicuous markers or limits. Moore was also assisted by a wideranging group of ranchers, farmers, crop dusters, game wardens, writers, and historians during his ten years of work on this project. The book includes a preface by the late noted author Kent Haruf, a story by the writer Inara Verzemnieks, an essay by noted curator of Western Art, Toby Jurovics, as well as extensive set of endnotes about the images themselves.

ISBN:
9788862084703
9788862084703
Category:
Places & peoples: general & pictorial works
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Damiani
Country of origin:
Italy
Dimensions (mm):
469x406x45mm
Weight:
2.27kg
Andrew Moore

Moore's photographs have been acquired by numerous museums in the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the Israel Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. This new book will be his seventh monograph, alongside Inside Havana (2002, Chronicle), Russia (2005, Chronicle), Detroit Disassembled (2010, Damiani), and Cuba (2012, Damiani) and Dirt Meridian (2015).

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