The NYT Lens blog featured the New Orleans work of photographer Dave Anderson last week. Anderson’s new book chronicles five years of change in a single square block of the Lower Ninth Ward. Folks have long struggled with how visually to represent the scope of the Katrina disaster. Anderson chose to do it by highlighting the specific world of one particular place. It’s inspired.
The work is all outstanding, but the image above struck me especially: paint smears, holstered hammer, a body hard at work. A portrait worthy of the famous “work portraits” of Lewis Hine.
The NYT Lens blog featured the New Orleans work of photographer Dave Anderson last week. Anderson’s new book chronicles five years of change in a single square block of the Lower Ninth Ward. Folks have long struggled with how visually to represent the scope of the Katrina disaster. Anderson chose to do it by highlighting the specific world of one particular place. It’s inspired.
The work is all outstanding, but the image above struck me especially: paint smears, holstered hammer, a body hard at work. A portrait worthy of the famous “work portraits” of Lewis Hine.
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