Lordstown homes across the street from General Motors Lordstown Complex, 2300 Hallock Young Road, Warren, OH, 2019 from The Last Cruze
LaToya Ruby Frazier
American, born 1982
2019
A gelatin silver print aerial photograph in which LaToya Ruby Frazier frames a snow‑covered subdivision facing the General Motors Lordstown plant to examine how industrial decline shapes everyday communities.
From above you first notice the chessboard of snow‑outlined roofs and curving streets, and the stark edge where neat homes meet factories and frozen fields, making the proximity of domestic life and industry visually unavoidable.
By mapping a neighborhood against a shuttered industrial complex, Frazier extends documentary photography’s tradition of social critique, making visible the intimate effects of deindustrialization and corporate decisions on working‑class communities.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
24 × 20 × 1/2" (61 × 50.8 × 1.3 cm)
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Credit
Acquired with the support of the Fund for the Twenty-First Century; Vital Projects Fund, Robert B. Menschel; Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović; Clarissa A. Bronfman; Ian Cook; David Dechman and Michel Mercure; Thomas and Susan Dunn; Kristy and Robert Harteveldt; Mark Levine; Heidi and Richard Rieger; Christine A Symchych and James P McNulty, and Clark B. Winter. Jr.
Accession
542.2022.6
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