The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina

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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 such a lot of images of such a lot destruction threaten a visual and emotional overload that would tempt us to avert our eyes and turn into 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. The use of an innovative digital photographic technology known as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, wherein more than one exposures are artistically blended to bring out details in the shadows and highlights that would be hidden in conventional photographs, he creates images which might be 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 the artifacts of people’s lives—a child’s red wagon abandoned in a mud-caked room, a molding picture of Jesus—to fully have in mind 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. That is the hidden truth of Katrina that Dan Burkholder has revealed.

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