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"The wonder of these photographs is that they look like paintings, yet the objects depicted within them are not idealized. The dying domestic objects of the people to whom these interiors belong are no longer of this world. They have been captured on their journey to becoming indistinct trash. At the moment of their capture, they still looked like what they used to be, but moments after they were photographed, they no longer were anything. Their last breath of life is in these photographs; their only other existence is in the memories of their owners." --Andrei Codrescu 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, sc

Who reads The Color of Loss : An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina?

Author

photographs and introduction by Dan Burkholder

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292717138

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Photography

Rating

4.7 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14