Katrina Personal Objects - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904563767 ISBN 13: 9781904563761

Publisher: Trolley Books, 2008

Synopsis

Three years ago on August 29th 2005, Katrina, a natural hurricane, struck the city of New Orleans. Nobody envisaged the damage and destruction it would wreak on the southern US city, and it became on a much greater scale a manmade disaster of civil engineering and social discrimination. Because of government failure, millions viewed political ineptitude, social inequity and an unpaved America where the streets were lined with anything but gold. The images in this book show the abandoned and hardest-hit district of the Lower Ninth Ward over two years later, and still counting today. Vacant and dilapidated, the city is a shadow of its former self. However, in these seemingly lifeless shadows, and through the broken windows of empty houses, one can eerily see the ghostly reflections of life and death in the form of PERSONAL OBJECTS. These intensely personal items have been abandoned and left, and in most cases, will never be reclaimed. This small format book touches on the ephemeral, and surprisingly often beautiful, remnants of belongings that once made up the memories and precious moments of people's lives.

About this title

About the Author:

In 1990 Jarret Schecter purchased a Pentax camera. Since then he has traveled the world. Committed to socio-political issues, Schecter believes that photography can bring awareness to social injustices the world faces today. Schecter, born in 1963, lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trolley Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1904563767
• ISBN 13: 9781904563761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Sorrenti Francesca