One Block follows the reconstruction of a single New Orleans
block from 2006 to 2010 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, Dave Anderson documents the evolution of both the
street and its houses as residents rebuild, exploring the very nature of
community while testing its resilience. Anderson's work has drawn
comparisons to Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration
photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by
Hurricane Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and
permanence of the American home are again in question. Yet, One Block
reminds us how determination, resilience, and the bonds of community
help us to endure.
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Dave Anderson has been recognized as "one of the
shooting stars of the American photo scene" by Germany's fotoMAGAZIN
and named a "Rising Star" by Photo District News. His project
Rough Beauty was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition
awarded by Center, Santa Fe and was published with an essay by Anne
Wilkes Tucker. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work
"as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic."
Anderson's work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern
and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New
Orleans; the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chris Rose is an
acclaimed New Orleans columnist, whose harrowing and poignant essays
following Katrina were collected in his widely lauded book 1 Dead in
Attic (2005). Called the "Crescent City's Bard" by the Huffington
Post, Rose is an essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, a
frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition,
and a longtime columnist for the Times-Picayune, where he was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rose currently writes for the Gambit
weekly newspaper and appears regularly on Fox 8 New Orleans.
