NPR’s “A Blog Supreme” features a slideshow of photos by Michael Weintrob, who manipulated a number of photos of musicians to replace their heads with their instruments. Among Weintrob’s subjects are Uncle Lionel Batiste, Kirk Jospeph, Bill Summers and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. You can see his work here, and more at Weintrob’s site, where [...]
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Marie-Dominique Verdier, New Orleans Walls: Still Standing (First Light Press)
May 1, 2011 – 12:34 am
New Orleans Walls is a collection of portraits of more than 80 “emblematic” New Orleans people posing in front of walls. The walls were chosen by Verdier, born and raised in France, for their color, texture and various states of falling-down-ness (read beauté). Most of the portraits are accompanied by a story told by each [...]
Robert Fogarty and Evacuteer.org Go for Gold
January 1, 2011 – 12:06 am
Who? Robert Fogarty, an Omaha, Nebraska native who came to New Orleans with Americorps and ended up as Nagin’s Intern Coordinator. What now? He’s the Executive Director of Evacuteer.org, which raises money to commission works of public art that serve as evacuation pick-up point markers at 17 points throughout the city, and trains evacuteers to [...]
Zack Smith: Making Faces
October 1, 2010 – 12:11 am
In 2008, Zack Smith commandeered a back corner of the Voodoo grounds in City Park where he set up a photo booth. Specially-made wallpaper hung on one wall, and a sheet of plywood on a couple of sawhorses stored an array of cameras. Over the course of the weekend, he cycled musicians, fans and members [...]
Elizabeth Kleinveld (ed.), Before During After (UNO Press)
September 1, 2010 – 12:20 am
[UPDATED] Before During After speaks to the power of Hurricane Katrina, though not in the way it intends. Photographer Elizabeth Kleinveld had the provocative idea to document how Katrina affected people—in this case, photographers—by looking at the work they did before, during and after it. That means that there are only two or three Katrina-related [...]
Herman Leonard, 1923-2010
August 15, 2010 – 11:59 am
I am very sad to report the death of Herman Leonard, one of the world’s great photographers, and a longtime friend. Herman moved to New Orleans in 1992, and immersed himself in the New Orleans music scene. He lost his house and some of his work to Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. [...]
Behind “Before During After”
August 10, 2010 – 1:44 pm
“Living in the Netherlands, but being from New Orleans, Before During After was born from a yearning to stay in touch with my hometown and be part of the process of its rebirth,” confesses photographer and Before During After (UNO Press) editor, Elizabeth Kleinveld. The book is a photographic response to Hurricane Katrina, and it will [...]
Patti Smith
June 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
“I love the 19th Century amateurs. That’s who I aspire to in photographs,” Patti Smith said. The musician/poet was speaking in the theater at the New Orleans Museum of Art, but her talk was being fed via video to an overflow crowd in the museum’s lobby. The occasion was the opening of a show of [...]
The Allman Brothers Band: Every Picture Tells a Story
May 1, 2010 – 12:17 am
See more of Smith’s rare, vintage photos of the Allman Brothers Band here. You are Sidney Smith. It’s the fall of 1970. You are a 16-year-old Fortier High School student and you’ve wanted to be a rock star photographer for ever since you can remember. Your old man, an amateur photographer, died, leaving you with [...]
