One Block by Chris Rose

One Block by Chris Rose

American photographer Dave Anderson's One Block follows the reconstruction of a single New Orleans block in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, delivering a powerful portrait of the storm's ongoing physical and psychological impact on the city and its residents. Using portraiture, still lifes and abstract images, Anderson documents the evolution of both the street and its houses as residents literally rebuild their lives, exploring the very nature of community while testing its resilience. Anderson's compassionate treatment of the neighborhood's straitened financial circumstances and its courageous reconstruction has drawn comparisons to coverage of the Great Depression by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and other Farm Security Administration-funded photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and permanence of the American home are once again in jeopardy, lending Anderson's record a heightened, timely pertinence. One Block is an extension of Anderson's optimistic belief that the good within each of us is what unites us, as well as his hope that this commonality will afford us the grace to both endure and emerge from our current turmoil.

Chris Rose is a columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent contributor for NPR's Morning Edition. He was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 2006 for his Katrina essays, and he received a portion of the Times-Picayune staff's Pulitzer for Public Service in 2007. Rose and his three children live in New Orleans.

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ISBN 13	9781597111430
ISBN 10	1597111430
Title	One Block
Author	Chris Rose
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Aperture Collector Editions
Year published	2010-07-01
Number of pages	140
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