The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City, by David G. Spielman, Jack Davis, John H. Lawrence

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Published on the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina'The great photographer David Spielman captured the essence of hope and despair in his powerful pictures of Katrina s devastation. But he never put his Leica down, because he knows that after ten years the recovery of his beloved city is both amazing and incomplete. The result is this poignant portrait of rebirth and blight, perfect for an artist who s a master of black and white.' - Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and best-selling author 'As strangely beautiful as the encroaching vines that still enshroud whole rows of houses ten years after Katrina, David Spielman s astonishing photographs speak with a quiet but forceful eloquence of devastation and abandonment,of perseverance and renewal.' -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaches ravaged New Orleans. Dramatic images abounded, but they told only the beginning of the story. In the 10 years since, David G. Spielman embraced the traditions of photographers from the Works Progress Administration and Farm Security Administration and documented subtle changes throughout his beloved city.'New Orleans has a melancholy beauty that defies logic and transcends time,'says Spielman. Vines creep up the side of a home that could be vacant or occupied. Graffiti mars or beautifies? the walls of an abandoned building. Readers must draw their own conclusions from his haunting black-and-white images.

The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City, by David G. Spielman, Jack Davis, John H. Lawrence

• Amazon Sales Rank: #457922 in Books
• Published on: 2015-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 9.50" w x .75" l, 2.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City, by David G. Spielman, Jack Davis, John H. Lawrence

About the Author Assignments have taken the commercial and fine-art photographer and freelance photojournalist David G. Spielman to six continents, where he has photographed presidents and other world leaders. His previously published collections include Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer (2007) and When Not Performing: New Orleans Musicians (2012). He has called New Orleans home for more than 40 years.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Poignant By R. M. Peterson Photographer David G. Spielman has lived in New Orleans for forty years. He stayed there during Katrina, bunkered down with the Poor Clare nuns in a monastery in Uptown. And he stayed there through the aftermath, taking photographs, some of which appeared in his 2007 book "Katrinaville Chronicles". A few years later, he got the idea for this book: to document the long-term effects of the hurricane, many of which have been exacerbated by the passage of time and human neglect. Spielman sees the aftereffects of Katrina as similar to the devastation wrought by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and he determined to record those aftereffects similar to the way Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others documented the Great Depression.Some of the most famous photographs of the Great Depression were, deliberately, political statements. Spielman tried to avoid that as he walked around New Orleans with his Leica: "This was to be a pictorial record of what I was finding. I needed and wanted to show what was, without adding my text, my interpretations, or my reflections of suffering individuals or the governing authorities." Another objective was to cover all the areas of the city that were affected, in part to dispel the "misconception created by mainstream media that the floodwaters were localized mainly to the Lower Ninth Ward."The result, THE KATRINA DECADE, is powerful -- and ineffably sad. Before Katrina, New Orleans was my favorite city in the United States (to visit -- I would not have wanted to live there). I have not been able to muster the gumption to go there since August 2005. With the upcoming tenth anniversary of Katrina, there has been a spate of media coverage about the miraculous recovery of the Big Easy -- Le Bon Temps Rouler! Spielman's photographs underscore how misleading that publicity is for the city as a whole.Most of the photographs were taken in 2013 and 2014. They all are in black-and-white (Spielman quotes Robert Frank: "Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."). With few exceptions the subjects are buildings -- houses, businesses, schools, and hospitals. With blown-out windows, missing roofs and clapboard siding, graffiti'd and vandalized, out-of-plumb, and being reclaimed by nature. (Vines appear everywhere, in a number of photos starting from the roof and growing down so that they are in advanced stages of enveloping the building.)For those who care about New Orleans -- all of New Orleans and all of its people -- THE KATRINA DECADE should not be missed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. this was a great way to remember all that happened during Katrina and ... By 4GreytHounds Being from New Orleans, this was a great way to remember all that happened during Katrina and to see how things have changed. This really touched a nerve and I loved it so much I bought additional copies for my family members for Christmas gifts. Well done!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. and the the photos seemed of poor quality. By Teresa Gildersleeve I returned this book. It was overpriced; and the the photos seemed of poor quality.

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