Andrew Moore's recent saturated color photographs continue his documentation of far away places – blending architecture, interiors, ruins, landscape and weather into complex portraits of different cultures. His visual descriptions of Cuba, Russia, and Vietnam capture the paradoxes and anomalies of cultures caught in the flux of time. In each location one sees evidence - through architecture and adaptation – that the grandeur of the past is both an impossible standard to maintain and a decaying back-drop to be converted, remodeled, or exploited for current use.  Whether it is a curtain of scaffolding hiding the rehab of a Russian church hidden itself under a blanket of snow or a palatial former grand-room in a steamy, peeling Cuban residence partitioned and reconfigured as a bedroom, Moore’s eye lets us witness the point where romance and art collide with reality and social change. 

A large-format color photographer for thirty years, Mr. Moore has taught photography at Princeton University in New Jersey and the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work is included in many public collections including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Library of Congress, the High Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.


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