The Photographs of John T. Mendes
Location:
The Historic New Orleans Collection
Williams Research Center
410 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Tue – Sat 9:30-4:30
504-598-7171
Exhibition Dates:
December 1-31, 2009
Opening and Book Signing:
Tuesday, December 1, 6-8pm
An exhibition of 50-60 photographs of New Orleans recently printed from John Mendes glass negatives. Mendes was an amateur N. O. photographer active from 1916–ca. 1935. His life passion was his pet dogs. In 1964, he self-published Dogs in My Life (unillustrated) a memoir about his pets and what they meant to him. A new book based on this text but illustrated with Mendes’s photographs of New Orleans will be released in December 2009 by UNO Press.
