BEFORE DURING AFTER: Louisiana Photographers' Visual Reactions to Hurricane Katrina (Paperback)
Description
We saw it.
We captured it.
We are forever changed by it.
Before During After is a visual and literary narrative of how Hurricane Katrina has transformed the lives and work of twelve photographers from Southeast Louisiana. Five years in the storm’s wake, we look back to discover Katrina’s imprint on the creative expression of each artist. Some changes are dramatic, others apparently subtle – all are significant. The effect of a commonly experienced catastrophe is transforming. The photographers witnessed the changes through their lens and interpreted these individually with images they created before, during and after Katrina.
The book emphasizes not only the effect Hurricane Katrina has had on these photographers, but also the way individuals are influenced by their environments, particularly in a time of dramatic upheaval. Adding depth to the pictorial representation, each photographer has written an intimate account of how Katrina changed his or her life, work and vision of the future.
About the Author
Elizabeth Kleinveld is a self-taught artist and photographer from New Orleans who lives in the Netherlands. Kleinveld spent a year and a half documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This work was exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Colorado Fine Arts Center, the United States Senate, The Hague City Hall, ABN AMRO, and more.
In 2007, she began creating a series of photographs inspired by exotic flowers and their reflections in water. In addition to this fine art series, Kleinveld has photographed flowers at the Botanical Gardens in New Orleans, Kew Gardens in London and the Keukenhof in the Netherlands.
Kleinveld's work has been cataloged in the New Orleans Museum of Art’s catalog Katrina Exposed (2006) and in the Road to Peace exhibition in The Hague (2007). She has been covered by the Washington Post, Het Financieele Dagblad, Het Algemeen Dagblad, De Volkskrant, Trouw, Leidsch Dagblad, and by other newspapers and Fine Art journals. Her work is held by the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, the Dutch Embassy in Washington D.C.and in other public and private collections internationally.
