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 [...]
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Erika Goldring Gallery Show Opens
February 4, 2010 – 12:18 pm
Photographer Erika Goldring is a regular contributor to OffBeat, and tonight she opens a show of her work, “Performance Portraiture,” at the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery on the fourth floor of Loyola’s Monroe Library. According to gallery director Karoline Schleh, “Goldring captures the energy in a live show whether it is the split-second a beautiful [...]
George Long, Katrina Days: Life in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina (Xlibris)/Yoshio and Keiko Toyama, The Holy Land: New Orleans, The Saint: Louis Armstrong (Touseisha)
August 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Not surprisingly, Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath was irresistible for photographers. How often does the landscape you’ve known all your life become an unimaginable, alien place? How often does any place in America turn upside down, so that the trappings of domestic and urban life sit next to destruction filmmakers never think of? That juxtaposition is [...]
Spring Is Upon Us; Start It With Spare Parts
April 1, 1992 – 12:01 am
Springtime in New Orleans means festival time with the French Quarter Festival (April 10-12) and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the end of the month. Roadtrippers will be well rewarded by checking out the Festival International de Louisiane April 21-26 in Lafayette (consult our cover story). Meanwhile, that old spare parts pot is [...]
Elvis Close-Up: The King Revived at NOMA
August 1, 1990 – 12:01 am
The king died thirteen years ago this month. Elvis, the first mega-star in the galaxy of American popular music, had lived to the ripe old age of 42. He may not have invented rock & roll, but he, Zeus-like, had breathed into it the full measure of its life force, its radiant aura and dionysian [...]
Gallery Scene: The French Quarter
November 1, 1989 – 12:01 am
There is a mystique about the French Quarter. Traditionally, it is one of the few real bohemias in this generally utilitarian country. The Quarter has long been a favored haunt of artists, poets and writers—and just about everybody else who didn’t fit in. As recently as the early ’70s, it was a kind of colorful [...]
