Depicting the politically poignant decline and desolation of factory towns across the Midwest
When Donald Trump became president in 2016, he did so on a wave of promises to restore America’s Rust Belt to its former industrial glory. A year later, while preparing for a retrospective at MoMA, American photographercame across a series of his photographs that illustrated just why Trump’s words had resonated so strongly with the Midwestern electorate that had assured his victory.
Shore’s series took him across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, to factory towns whose identity had disappeared overnight, leaving a void that extended far beyond the vacant workshops and bars that now lay silent. The seeds of this devastation, which Shore documented in its relative infancy, have yielded an irrevocable change in American politics, from the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 to Trump in 2016.
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