Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Taylor Trade Publishing; 1st Taylor Trade Pub. Ed edition January 25, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1589793595
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1589793590
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Book Dimensions:
10 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
The top editors at the Dallas Morning News, accustomed to dire warnings about killer storms that never materialize, imagined a weakened Hurricane Katrina would make an anti-climactic landfall. But they positioned their teams of photographers and reporters before the storm hit, a decision that helped produce some of the most evocative images of the cataclysm that devastated the Gulf Coast. Those photographs, along with pictures from the succeeding September storm, Hurricane Rita, fill this chronicle of the events of late summer of 2005. But it is Katrina photographs from New Orleans and its environs that dominate this volume. The opening shots document the monstrous traffic jams endured by those who fled Katrina's approach and the dismissive partying of some never-say-die denizens of the French Quarter before the levees burst and a post-apocalyptic chaos descended on the city. Every photograph is memorable, but some are standouts, such as the shot of a lady whose husband's hand rests on her shoulder, their fingers touching, or the aerial shot of two dogs as they "inspect" a corpse. The book concludes with short biographical sketches of the photojournalists and brief accounts of the stories behind images. Readers would do well to pick up this catalogue of the heart-rending scenes that outraged the nation and the world-and altered the lives of both the subjects and the photographers.
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Product Description
The Dallas Morning News had more staff photographers on the scene when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast at the end of August. These Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers caught every aspect of the storm and its aftermath on film and many of those photographs will be seen for the first time in this great work of photojournalism.
Reader ReviewsI was shown this book today, by a woman who survived ten days in the attic of her flooded home in New Orleans after the levy broke. As we leafed through the book together, tears rolled down her face. Pointing to the photos, she occasionally remarked, "This man was my neighbor," or "See her? That's my friend." She recounted horror after horror that she had endured, even wondering if those dogs in the picture were the same ones she saw gathered around a man's body--they weren't just inspecting it. My friend stayed in her house because she refused to leave her pets--a dog, birds, and fish--behind, and it almost cost her own life. Her photo appears in the book too. She looks like she's flashing the finger, but she was, in fact, holding it up to a medic so he could take a sample of blood after she had the first of two heart attacks in the storm's aftermath. She might as well be flashing it, though. She has nothing good whatsoever to say about the way the Bush government handled the crisis. I can't judge whether a book captures the reality of a situation unless I've been there myself. She lived through Katrina and the flood, though, and she says this book shows exactly the way it was. I believe her.
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