Description:If you can find beauty in industrial decline. Andrew Moore's photographs of the Motor City are heartbreaking and operatic in scale, the Akron Art Museum says, yet they also offer a glimmer of hope. Mr. Moore's images, printed on the scale of epic history paintings, “belong to an artistic tradition that began in the 17th century,” the museum says. His “soaring scenes of rusting factory halls and crumbling theaters share the monumentality of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 18th century engravings of the fallen civic monuments of ancient Rome and Greece.” Photographs of skeletal houses and collapsed churches “carry forward the Romantic tone and rich hues of Caspar David Friedrich's 19th century paintings of fallen medieval cathedrals and castles.” In the end, the museum says, Mr. Moore's “post-apocalyptic scenes reflect present-day America. He has been scrupulously honest, creating photographs that are both documentary and metaphorical in nature.”