A Place Removed: After Sprague Electric / Before MASS MoCA

Photographer Nicholas Whitman began photographing North Adams' abandoned Sprague Electric Company factory in 1988 "because it would surely be razed." Documenting the then-deteriorating 19th-century mill buildings, Whitman captured scenes ranging from vast postindustrial landscapes to minute traces of the plant's former workers. Whitman's meticulously composed photographs, windows onto the historic nature of MASS MoCA's celebrated renovated factory campus, are now on view in the museum. This book of black and white photographs from the exhibition was published by the artist. Paperback.