Andrew Moore
1957 –
Introduction
Andrew Lambdin Moore (born 26 March, 1957) is an American photographer and filmmaker known for large format color photographs of Detroit, Cuba, Russia, the American High Plains, and New York's Times Square theaters. Moore's photographs employ the formal vocabularies of architectural and landscape photography and the narrative approaches of documentary photography and journalism to detail remnants of societies in transition. His photographic essays have been published in monographs, anthologies, and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Fortune, Wired, and Art in America. Moore's video work has been featured on PBS and MTV; his feature-length documentary about the artist Ray Johnson, How to Draw a Bunny, won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Moore teaches in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Wikidata identifier
Q506356
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Introduction
Born 26 March 1957. In 1980, Moore was commissioned by the Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Louisiana, to photograph, in colour, the industrial and commercial areas of the city. Also in 1980, Moore travelled to Mexico to photograph indigenous architecture and cityscapes. In 1981, Moore moved to Brooklyn, New York, and has been a freelance photographer in New York City since that date. In 1981, Moore also photographed in England, United Kingdom, and in Italy. In 1982, Moore began a photographic survey of industrial towns in western New York State.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, photographer
ULAN identifier
500036944
Names
Andrew Moore, Andrew L. Moore
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