The last Cruze being detailed by Ron Davis at Sweeney Chevrolet Buick GMC car dealership in Boardman, OH, 2019
LaToya Ruby Frazier
American, born 1982
2019
A gelatin silver photograph that quietly records the “last Cruze” at a small Ohio dealership, intending to document everyday labor and the human traces of industrial change.
A glossy white compact car glows amid the dim, wet concrete of a service bay as two attendants lean close in concentrated gestures, while curtains, tools, and oily reflections frame a scene of intimate, hands-on work.
Within LaToya Ruby Frazier’s practice, this image links personal and local labor to broader stories of deindustrialization and the documentary tradition, making visible how economic shifts reshape ordinary lives and landscapes.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
24 × 20 × 1/2" (61 × 50.8 × 1.3 cm)
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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
542.2022.117
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