by Bob Etier for Blog Critics
September 15, 2010
Book Review: Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers' Visual Reactions to Hurricane Katrina, Edited by Elizabeth Kleinveld
Excerpt:
Before (During) After is an elegant collection of photographs from that awful time. Twelve photographers contributed photos and essays... Their photographs are a melancholy record of both the damages (some small, some enormous) and their own feelings and experiences. Rowan Metzner’s picture of a fish slammed up against a screen and a green watering can that landed in a tree sum up the turmoil.
Volumes are spoken by Lori Waselchuk’s photo of a cooler next to a hole cut through a roof. The effect of all these portraits, still lifes, and landscapes is an understanding of the human experience and loss.
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