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.
Jusqu’au milieu du XXème siècle, la ville de Détroit symbolisait la réussite économique américaine.
Depuis, la désindustrialisation, l’appauvrissement, la violence n’ont laissé que des ruines, majestueusement photographiées…hélas.