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Author Burkholder, Dan, 1950-

Title The color of loss : an intimate portrait of New Orleans after Katrina / photographs and introduction by Dan Burkholder ; foreword by Andrei Codrescu
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (119 pages) : chielfy color illustrations
Contents Dan Burkholder's Immersion -- Shadows of Lives and Loss -- The Photographs
Summary The devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has been imprinted in our collective visual memory by thousands of images in the media and books of dramatic photographs by Robert Polidori, Larry Towell, Chris Jordan, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, and others. New Orleanians want the world to see and respond to the destruction of their city and the suffering of its people--and yet so many images of so much destruction threaten a visual and emotional overload that would tempt us to avert our eyes and become numb. In The Color of Loss, Dan Burkholder presents a powerful new way of seeing the ravaged homes, churches, schools, and businesses of New Orleans. Using an innovative digital photographic technology called high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, in which multiple exposures are artistically blended to bring out details in the shadows and highlights that would be hidden in conventional photographs, he creates images that are almost like paintings in their richness of color and profusion of detail. Far more intense and poetic than purely documentary photographs, Burkholder's images lure viewers to linger over the artifacts of people's lives--a child's red wagon abandoned in a mud-caked room, a molding picture of Jesus--to fully understand the havoc thrust upon the people of New Orleans. In the deserted, sinisterly beautiful rooms of The Color of Loss, we see how much of the splendor and texture of New Orleans washed away in the flood. This is the hidden truth of Katrina that Dan Burkholder has revealed
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Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Pictorial works
Hurricane damage -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
Abandoned buildings -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
House furnishings -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
Personal belongings -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
Interior architecture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works
Photography, Artistic.
Photography -- Digital techniques.
art photography.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- General.
Abandoned buildings
Buildings
House furnishings
Hurricane damage
Interior architecture
Personal belongings
Photography, Artistic
Photography -- Digital techniques
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Pictorial works
New Orleans (La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292793910
029279391X