General Motors Lordstown Complex and newly built Chevrolet Cruze compact sedans, Lordstown, OH
LaToya Ruby Frazier
American, born 1982
2019
A gelatin silver photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier that captures the Lordstown General Motors complex and neatly ordered rows of newly built Chevrolet Cruzes to examine the scale and human consequences of contemporary manufacturing.
Seen from above, parking lots become geometry—rigid, repetitive rows of cars, pale pavement and patches of snow render the industrial site precise, orderly, and oddly desolate.
Part of Frazier’s sustained investigation of deindustrialization in northeastern Ohio, the image uses an aerial, almost forensic perspective to make visible the mechanized scale of production and the social and economic shifts it produces.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
24 × 20 × 1/2" (61 × 50.8 × 1.3 cm)
Classification
Department
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
542.2022.15
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