© Michael Kenna
Currently not on view
The Rouge, Study 35, Dearborn, Michigan,
1994, printed 1995
Michael Kenna, born 1953 Widnes, UK; active Seattle, WA
1997-29.35
The two-thousand-acre Ford Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, was once a symbol of American industrial might, serving as a model for vertical integration in automobile manufacturing. After the company decentralized in the 1960s, production slowed down and the Rouge facility, which once had its own fire department, police force, and hospital, was downsized. Kenna documented the complex in a series of 120 photographs utilizing natural light and long exposures. Here the atmospheric lighting effects present the industrial landscape as both alive and dying, a dynamic factory and an artifact.
Information
Title
The Rouge, Study 35, Dearborn, Michigan
Dates
1994, printed 1995
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
19.4 x 18.9 cm. (7 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
mount: 50.8 x 40.6 cm. (20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
The Ford Rouge Complex Collection, gift of the Ford Motor Company
Object Number
1997-29.35
Place Depicted
North America, United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Inscription
Inscribed in pencil, recto below lower left corner of image: 1/45
Signed and dated in pencil, recto below lower right corner of image: Michael Kenna 1994.
Inscribed in pencil, verso lower center: THE ROUGE, STUDY 35, DEARBORN, MICHIGAN
Stamped in ink, below: Negative 1994 (in pencil) Print 1995 (in pencil) / © MICHAEL KENNA / This 7½” x 7½” Sepia toned Silver Gelatin / print is #1 (in pencil) in a limited edition. The total / number of prints in this edition will not / exceed 45 and 4 artist proofs. All prints / are made by Michael Kenna.
Signed in pencil, below: Michael Kenna
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