"The wonder of these photographs is that they look like paintings,
yet the objects depicted within them are not idealized. The dying
domestic objects of the people to whom these interiors belong are
no longer of this world. They have been captured on their journey
to becoming indistinct trash. At the moment of their capture, they
still looked like what they used to be, but moments after they were
photographed, they no longer were anything. Their last breath of
life is in these photographs; their only other existence is in the
memories of their owners." --Andrei Codrescu
The devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has been
imprinted in our collective visual memory by thousands of images in
the media and books of dramatic photographs by Robert Polidori,
Larry Towell, Chris Jordan, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, and others. New
Orleanians want the world to see and respond to the destruction of
their city and the suffering of its people--and yet so many images
of so much destruction threaten a visual and emotional overload
that would tempt us to avert our eyes and become numb.
In The Color of Loss, Dan Burkholder presents a powerful new way
of seeing the ravaged homes, churches, schools, and businesses of
New Orleans. Using an innovative digital photographic technology
called high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, in which multiple
exposures are artistically blended to bring out details in the
shadows and highlights that would be hidden in conventional
photographs, he creates images that are almost like paintings in
their richness of color and profusion of detail. Far more intense
and poetic than purely documentary photographs, Burkholder's images
lure viewers to linger over theartifacts of people's lives--a
child's red wagon abandoned in a mud-caked room, a molding picture
of Jesus--to fully understand the havoc thrust upon the people of
New Orleans.
In the deserted, sinisterly beautiful rooms of The Color of
Loss, we see how much of the splendor and texture of New Orleans
washed away in the flood. This is the hidden truth of Katrina that
Dan Burkholder has revealed.
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