After the Flood

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After the Flood
by Robert Polidori, Jeff L. Rosenheim
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In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark. The next day he began to photograph, house by house: "All the places I went in, the doors were just open. They had been opened by what I collectively call "the army", of maybe 20 National Guards from New Hampshire, 15 policemen from Minneapolis, 20 firefighters from New York... On maybe half of them or a third of them that I went in, I think that the occupants had been there prior. And some of them did leave certain funeral-like mementos before they left. Maybe right after the waters receded they had the chance to just--to go back to their place and just see, and realize there's nothing worth saving." Amidst all this, Polidori has found something worth saving, has created mementos for those who could not return, documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage. In classical terms, he has found ruins. The abandoned houses he recorded were still waterlogged as he entered and as he learned (by trial and error, a process that including finding a dead body) the language of signs and codes in which rescue workers had spray-painted each house's siding. He sees the resulting photographs as the work of a psychological witness, mapping the lives of the absent and deceased through what remains of their belongings and their homes.

• Rank: #306661 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-15
• Released on: 2008-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.61" h x 2.52" w x 14.96" l, 10.54 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
by Andrei Codrescu
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For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps.

Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost.

New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.

• Rank: #164940 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-31
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .86" h x 5.09" w x 7.93" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

New Orleans Cemeteries Postcard Book

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New Orleans Cemeteries Postcard Book
by Jan Brantley, Robert Brantley

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Includes raised tombs, ornate statuary, and the alleged grave of voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

• Rank: #2367493 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-31
• Released on: 2003-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds
• Binding: Card Book
• 16 pages

New Orleans Then and Now (Then & Now)

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New Orleans Then and Now (Then & Now)
by Lester Sullivan
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Celebrating this beloved city, New Orleans Then and Now offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty. This book features dozens of fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. Each work is a visual lesson in the historic changes of one of our greatest urban landscapes.

• Rank: #342009 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .65" h x 11.32" w x 9.76" l, 2.19 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages