Since the late 1970s, Louisiana a state long known for
outrageous politicians has witnessed a blossoming of the arts and
their enthusiastic reception by a national, and even world-wide,
audience. From John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to
James Lee Burke's detective Dave Robicheaux; from singers Fats
Domino and Aaron Neville to jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis and his
music-making family; from George Rodrigue's blue dog to Chef Paul
Prudhomme's transcendent cooking the list is long for Louisiana
talent.
Louisiana Faces documents in images and words the human texture
of this remarkable renaissance, not only the painters, sculptors,
chefs, musicians, poets, and writers who create the art, but also
the ordinary people who in their daily and seasonal rhythms inform
that art. Some are living legends, others well-kept secrets; all
have a place, and a face, at the feast.
Philip Gould confirms his own part in the renaissance with the
125 stunning portraits in Louisiana Faces. Gould's lively, poignant
photographs capture a range of personalities in timeless settings
that mirror the larger culture whether masked riders in a Cajun
carnival or jazzmen playing a street funeral. Writer Jason Berry
complements Gould's images with a probing, witty essay that
explores the parallels between art and life. Using meld of
interviews, anecdotes, history, and commentary, Berry treats
outsized political figures and pop culture celebrities as a parade
of inspiration for Louisiana artists.
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