Williams Research Center
410 Chartres St
New Orleans, LA 70130
Friday, December 9, 2011 :: 5-7pm

A multiple artist book-signing event featuring:

Shannon Brinkman – “Preservation Hall”
Ashley Gilbertson – “Whisky Tango Foxtrot”
Loli Kantor – “There Was a Forest”
Deborah Luster – “Tooth For An Eye”
James A. Reeves – “The Road to Somewhere”
Josephine Sacabo* – “Oyeme Con Los Ojos” + “Pedro Paramo”
Jennifer Shaw – “Hurricane Story”
Mary Virginia Swanson – “Publish Your Photography Book”

This event is presented in partnership with Octavia Books and The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Preservation Hall
By Shannon Brinkman,
Eve Abrams
Paperback: 144 pages, 132 color photographs
Dimensions: 9.50 x 9.50
ISBN: 9780807137260
Louisiana State University Press
March 2011
$24.95

Preservation Hall, located in the French Quarter just three blocks from the Mississippi River, remains an icon of New Orleans and an essential stop for all fans of traditional jazz. Since the early 1960s “The Hall” has served as a sanctuary for the Crescent City’s rich and illustrious jazz heritage, a haven for players, and an incubator for successive generations of jazz musicians. Seven nights a week the venue fills to capacity with die-hard fans and curious tourists eager to hear live New Orleans jazz played by a mix of veteran musicians and up-and-coming players. Preservation Hall dedicates itself to the authentic performance of traditional jazz. The space inside seems simple, and a large portion of the audience must stand in the back, behind a limited number of benches, chairs, and floor cushions. The Hall has no dance floor and serves no food or drink. In Preservation Hall, the music alone fills the space between listener and player.

In their rare behind-the-scenes portrait, New Orleans photographer Shannon Brinkman and audio documentarian Eve Abrams capture the rhythm and cool of this historic club with both a pulsating array of images and the heartfelt words of band members.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
By Ashley Gilbertson
Hardcover: 260 pages
Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.6 x 1
ISBN: 978-0226293257
University Of Chicago Press
$35

“Remarkable. An Australian freelancer in his twenties, [Gilbertson] went to northern Iraq before the war and has been going back ever since, mostly on contract for the Times. His new book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot collects Gilbertson’s four years of work in Iraq, with an introduction by his Times colleague Dexter Filkins, and a colloquial, self-revealing text beautifully written by the photographer himself. The pictures chart the descent of Iraq from the initial post-invasion euphoria into the extreme violence of the battles for Karbala, Samarra, and Falluja. They also show a young photojournalist, who “wasn’t interested in covering combat,” learning his craft, proving his mettle, forcing himself into situations that nearly destroy him morally as well as physically, and finally discovering, amid the inferno of Falluja in November, 2004, the strange tenderness that characterizes the very greatest war photography. Gilbertson’s pictures from the battle of Falluja . . . perform the opposite function of the war pornography that Abu Ghraib and Zarqawi gave the world: they give back their subjects the humanity that the war is taking away.”
George Packer, New Yorker

THERE WAS A FOREST
Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today
By Loli Kantor
Hardcover: 87 pages with 49 plates
Dimensions: 6.5 x 8.5
Limited Edition Artist’s Book
Numbered and signed by the artist
ISBN: 978-0-615-34192-7
L. Nowlin Gallery, 2010
$45

Loli Kantor traveled to Poland and Ukraine in 2004-2008 to document contemporary Jewish Life. THERE WAS A FOREST: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today showcases some of her works in color and palladium 2005-2008 and is printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies. The book includes an essay by Anne Helmreich, Ph.D., Director, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Assiociate Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Printed in conjunction with the exhibition: ‘ There was a Forest ‘ at the L. Nowlin Gallery, Austin, Texas, 2010, and in conjunction with The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. The book was printed by A.R. printers, Tel Aviv, Israel, with the support of L. Nowlin Gallery, Austin, TX

‘Memory and hope are visible in the moving and surprising scenes of daily life among the revived Jewish communities of Poland and Ukraine. The palladium prints echo the indelible images of Roman Vishniac and others whose recording of the shtetl and its inhabitants in the 1930s proved to be the final snapshots of a doomed life’.
Robert Abzug, Ph.D, Director, The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
University of Texas at Austin

Tooth For An Eye
By Deborah Luster
Casebound: 64 Pages, with 30 Duotone Plates
Dimensions: 17 x 14
ISBN: 978-1-931885-96-6
Twin Palms, Spring 2011
$75.00

The city of New Orleans is a topographical/ architectural/material/cultural phenomenon with a diverse population participating in raucously colorful and fascinating pursuits and rituals. Homicide is a cultural fact of the life in the city as well. In her second book, Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish, Deborah Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, Prisoners of Louisiana, Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other’s infuence.

The Road to Somewhere
By James A. Reeves
Paperback: 411 pages
Dimensions: 7.6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-393-34005-1
W.W. Norton, August 2011
$25.00

A photo memoir of one man’s travels through America that is as sprawling and chaotic as the country itself.

One day James A. Reeves realized that he no longer understood his country or what he should be doing in it. There was a time when the road to manhood was clear-go to war, find a job with a big company, wear a tie, and start a family -but then the wars got strange and companies changed. He decided to go for a drive to clear his head. What resulted is a scattershot journey spanning five years, forty thousand miles, twelve speeding tickets, and several moments of unexpected kindness through the neon corridors and dark corners of America.

Reeves drove along the back roads taking pictures and looking for answers, kept company by the nervous chatter of talk radio and the ambient drone of twenty-four-hour diners, as he drifted toward a slow reckoning with his own compulsions and unexpected loss.

Óyeme Con Los Ojos
By Josephine Sacabo
Clothbound Hardcover: 86 pages
Dimensions: 10.25 x 11.75
November 2011
$60

Josephine Sacabo’s photographs transfer the viewer into a world of constructed beauty. Built upon a foundation of poetry and literature, her many portfolios are visual manifestations of the written word. Óyeme con los Ojos [Hear Me With Your Eyes] collects imagery spanning Sacabo’s career. The selected photographs and photogravures convey a vision that is dreamlike, surreal, and romantic. The black linen and embossed hardcover catalog was published in conjunction with Sacabo’s retrospective exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Hurricane Story
By Jennifer Shaw
Clothbound Hardcover: 112 pages
Dimensions: 6.75 x 6.75
ISBN: 978-0-9844576-3-2
BROKEN LEVEE BOOKS
Summer 2011
$18.00

Hurricane Story is a spellbinding odyssey of exile, birth and return told in forty-six photographs and simple, understated prose. This first-person narrative told through dreamlike images of toys and dolls chronicles one couple’s evacuation from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day that Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. Jennifer Shaw’s photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose. This clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author of Letters From New Orleans and former “Consumed” columnist for The New York Times Magazine.

Publish Your Photography Book
By Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson
Paperback: 224 pages
Dimensions: 7 x 9 inches
ISBN: 9781568988832
Princeton Architectural Press
Spring 2011
$29.95

We live in the golden age of the photography book. Since the early 1990s, the number of photography book publishers has continued to grow while technological developments have placed more tools for bookmaking directly in the hands of photographers. For the students and working artists who have chosen photography as their primary means of expression, having their own photography book is seen as a passport to the international photography scene. Yet, few have more than a tentative grasp of the component parts of a book, an understanding of what they want to express, or the know-how needed to get a book published. Publish Your Photography Book is the first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs.

Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson survey the current landscape of photography book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. This expert guide is organized in six sections covering the rich history of the photo book; an overview of the publishing industry; an intimate look at the process of making a book; a close review of how to market a photo book; a section on case studies, built around discussions and interviews with published photographers; and a final section presenting a wealth of resources and information to aid in the understanding of the publishing world. Publish Your Photography Book also includes a number of additional interviews and contributions from industry professionals, including artists, publishers, designers, packagers, editors, and other industry experts who openly share their publishing experiences.

*Josephine Sacabo’s keynote lecture presentation will immediately follow the book signing, from 7-9pm. Several of Sacabo’s books will be available for purchase, which the artist will be available to sign following her presentation.

New Orleans What Can't Be Lost, book cover

New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost
Christopher Porché West

November 27, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Opening and book signing: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9pm

Galerie Porché West
3201 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-947-3880
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-6pm

Robert W. Tebbs: Elmwood Plantation (side elevation), 1926, vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.331

Robert W. Tebbs: The Louisiana Plantation Photographs

December 5, 2011 – November 2012
Opening: Monday, December 5, 5:30-8:30pm

The Presbytere, Louisiana State Museum
751 Chartres St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-568-6968
Hours: Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm
Museum admission: $6

Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana’s plantations in 1926, with the guidance of Richard Koch, New Orleans preservation architect. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos: a frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist.

Louisiana in the mid-1920s moved from an economy beyond slave-based agriculture, toward mechanization, and on the brink of social and political reforms. Tebbs’s Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a new national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. The exhibition features 60 of Tebbs’s most striking photographs, and will be on view in the 2nd Floor Special Exhibition Gallery through Nov. 2012.

On Monday, December 5th, the Friends of the Cabildo, the Louisiana Landmarks Society and the Preservation Resource Center join with the Louisiana State Museum to celebrate the opening of Louisiana Plantation Photographs by Robert Tebbs. December 5th also marks the release of the book Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects: Louisiana Plantations in 1926, written by LSM visual arts curator Dr. Richard Anthony Lewis. The Louisiana State University Press published the 165-page hardcover catalogue, with foreword by Robert J. Cangelosi, Jr., President of Koch and Wilson, APC. Lewis and Cangelosi will offer remarks and sign copies of the book.

Open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.

The Presbytere, a National Historic Landmark building, is located on Jackson Square.

GONE: A Photographic Plea for Preservation pairs Nell Dickerson’s photographs of antebellum buildings in ruins with a short story by Shelby Foote. Robert Hicks wrote the introduction.

Photographer and architect Nell Dickerson began her exploration of antebellum homesteads with encouragement from her cousin-in-law—renowned Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote. Her passion for forgotten and neglected buildings became a plea for preservation.

Gone is a unique pairing of modern photographs and historical novella. Foote offers a heartbreaking look at one man’s loss as Union troops burn his home in the last days of the Civil War. Dickerson shares fascinating and haunting photographs, shining a poignant light on the buildings which survived Sherman’s burning rampage across the Confederacy, only to fall victim to neglect, apathy and poverty.

GONE is a powerfully moving volume that will change how you see the forgotten buildings that hide in obscurity across the Southern landscape. The book will be released in time to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War on April 12.

There will be an author’s talk and book signing at the Garden District Book Shop on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 PM.

Garden District Bookshop
2727 Prytania St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 895-2266

Nell has a schedule of additional upcoming signings here. You can also purchase a copy online through Indie Bound.

Williams Research Center
410 Chartres St
New Orleans, LA 70130

December 3, 2010
5-7pm

Following our Focus On Publishing symposium, The Historic New Orleans Collection hosts a group book signing event, featuring local authors and special festival guests from elsewhere. Presented in partnership with Octavia Books, this event immediately precedes the Michael Kenna keynote lecture in the same location.

Featured artists:
Dave Anderson – One Block
Michelle Bates – Toying with Creativity
Julie Blackmon – Domestic Vacations
Jackie Brenner - Friday Night Grind
Mario Tama – Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Ashley Merlin - Statuesque New Orleans
Sylvia Plachy - Self Portrait with Cows Going Home
Christopher Porché West – New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost
Multiple Artists – Before (During) After

Dave Anderson: One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds
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. Includes a foreword by Chris Rose.

Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home
Sylvia Plachy proves you can go home again and again in this stunning photographic voyage to her native Hungary. Plachy weaves together contemporary and vintage photographs, mementos and pictures of movie sets (including several from her son Adrien Brody’s Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist). Together, these pieces come together like a puzzle, recreating an Eastern Europe that has weathered dictatorships, two world wars and is now opening up, confusedly, to democracy. The images of stray shadows, apartment buildings studded with bullet holes, and eerie reflections are as evocative as they are subtle. They remind us that great photographs don’t have to rely on shock value to move or disturb. Plachy accents her work with memorable vignettes of her childhood in Communist Hungary as well as of her repeated journeys back east as an adult and an American citizen. One of the most touching of these small stories involves the photographer’s grief-stricken mother, inconsolable after the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz. One day, while her mother stared at a framed photo of her deceased parents, she saw a gold moth land on the glass. “From then on golden butterflies and moths were sacred,” writes Plachy. As the book goes on, relative after relative surrounds herself with images to bring back lost loved ones. By the book’s end, we see Plachy herself doing the same thing and realize that through this book she has invited us on a private tour of a lost world, a journey that’s as poignant as it is unforgettable. 22 four-color and 98 duotone images.
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Christopher Porché West: New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost
The eighty-eight stories and traditions in New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost are the piano keys in a love song to the city. Playing alongside the alluring black-and-white photographs of Christopher Porché West note by note, New Orleans’ culture bearers pay tribute to the city they call home. From Storyville to the Super Bowl, from cover to cover you’ll read from those who win our Pulitzer Prizes–four of them gathered on these pages; cook our Creole food; design our floats and costumes; flip forward over tourists lying on the pavement like matchsticks across from Jackson Square; protect our historic landmarks; teach our children; write our poems and articles and novels and plays; and pass down our traditions in the performance of New Orleans culture. The proceeds will be donated to Sweet Home New Orleans, a local nonprofit supporting the individuals and organizations that will perpetuate New Orleans’ unique musical and cultural traditions.

Michelle Bates: Plastic Cameras: Toying With Creativity
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity takes photographers on a tour of the fun, creative world of toy cameras and low-tech photography. Learn about the burgeoning world of plastic cameras in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life. Whether you’re an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you’ll find this book full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs. You’ll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You’ll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution.

Author Michelle Bates and several contributors will be available to sign copies, including: Gordon Stettinius, Louviere & Vanessa, Sylvia Plachy, Jennifer Shaw and (after his lecture) Michael Kenna.

Mario Tama: Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Mario Tama’s moving body of award-winning pictures document Hurricane Katrina’s shocking disaster and the resilience of recovery, hope, and change. As a news photographer for Getty Images, Tama’s powerful imagery of events like September 11th, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and the earthquake in Haiti have appeared in major magazines and newspapers internationally. His numerous honors include the prestigious Cliff Edom’s New America Award at the NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards, POY Year International, White House News Photographers Association, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, UNICEF Photo of the Year, and Care International Award for Humanitarian Reportage. In 2008 Tama was nominated for an Emmy Award for his Coney Island series, and his work on Baghdad’s orphans was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan. Features an introduction by Anderson Cooper.

Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations
The Dutch saying, “a Jan Steen household,” originated in the 17th century and has come to be used to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, are the direct inspiration behind the layered, domestic scenes of Blackmon’s work. Raised as the oldest of nine children, with three herself, Blackmon takes an approach to her work that is at once autobiographical and fictional. Blackmon sees life’s most poignant moments as a fusion of fantasy and reality, the mythic amidst chaos. Anne Wilkes Tucker of the Houston Museum of Fine Art has said of her work, “she’s taken a subject that is ripe for cliché—mother photographing children— and through the subtle, digital manipulations, the use of color and highly graphic images, she’s given it humor and edge and taken the subject somewhere fresh.”

Julie Blackmon is an award-winning photographer who has amassed several honors since beginning her career just a few years ago. Her work is in the collections of the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others.

Ashley Merlin: Statuesque New Orleans
Ashley Merlin captures two centuries of beautiful—but at times under appreciated—statues and monuments throughout the Greater New Orleans area in Statuesque New Orleans. Merlin, is a native New Orleanian whose work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including a solo show for the release of Statuesque at the UNO/St Claude Art Gallery.

From Andrew Jackson astride his horse in Jackson Square to Enrique Alferez’s beautiful works, Statuesque features 197 stunning color photographs of works ranging from 1850 to the present.
In addition to the photographs and their accompanying summation (which includes date, sculptor, location and background), the book features indexes of every statue by name and artist. For those inclined to seek out their favorite treasures, Statuesque also features ten neighborhood maps of the Greater New Orleans area.

Jackie Brenner: Friday Night Grind
New Orleans is at once elegant, cultured, and refined, yet dilapidated, boisterous, and vulgar. To document these eccentricities, Jackie Brenner is drawn to subjects that expose the night people of her hometown, with Bourbon Street strip clubs as the perfect tease. Gaining entry into this darkened, shadowy world was difficult. Friday nights were chosen to penetrate the fantasy, harshness, and humanity of the stripper’s world; to become a witness to the reality of their ‘otherwordly’ existence. The project began expecting the strippers to be mere objects and it finished knowing these ladies as human beings. Jackie Brenner’s enigmatic images now serve as historical record of the time before Hurricane Katrina’s devastation created another obstacle in the path for all of us who are addicted to the character of New Orleans.

Before (During) After
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 after the storm’s wake, we look back to discover Katrina’s imprint on the creative expression of each artist. The book emphasizes not only the effect of Hurricane Katrina but also the way individuals are influenced by their environments, particularly in times 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.

Featuring Eric Paul Julian, Elizabeth Kleinveld, Rowan Metzner, David Rae Morris, Thomas Neff, Samuel Portera, Frank Relle, Jennifer Shaw, Mark Sindler, Zack Smith, Jonathan Traviesa and Lori Waselchuk. Multiple contributors will be on hand to sign.

Several titles by Micheal Kenna will also be available for purchase before his lecture, which he will sign after the presentation.

Kavi (Silver Chumcha) by Priya Kambli

Priya Kambli: Color Falls Down

December 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Opening & Book Signing: Thursday, Dec 9, 6-9pm
SCAD Gallery Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9pm

Antenna Gallery
3161 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Hours: Sat + Sun 12-5pm, and by appt.
Special PhotoNOLA Hours: Friday, December 10 from 4-8pm
765-602-4698

Color Falls Down: My photographs visually express the notion of transience and split cultural identity caused by the act of migration. I have been viewing this issue through the lens of my own personal history and cultural journey. My move from India to the United States in 1993 left me feeling that I do not belong fully to either culture – leaving me unable to anchor myself in any particular cultural framework.

This disconnection from both cultures has changed me. I feel I have a hybrid identity, a patching together of two cultures within one person. Photography has helped me bridge the gap between my two cultures while coming to terms with this dual nature. My digital photographs reflect the tension inherent in this dual nature, by juxtaposing fragmented images, family snapshots, and carefully staged imagery. – Priya Kambli

Me (Polpat and Turmeric) by Priya Kambli

In 2008 Priya Kambli won the Book Award through Critical Mass, Photolucida’s juried competition. The book, titled Color Falls Down, was published in 2010 and can be purchased through Photolucida or Photoeye.

Dut by Christopher Porche West

New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost
Christopher Porche West

November 27, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Opening & Book Signing: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9pm

Galerie Porche West
3201 Burgundy
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-947-3880
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-6pm

Location:

Ogden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
Wed-Sun 10-5 + Thur "Ogden After Hours" 6-8:30pm
504-539-9600

Exhibition Dates:

Dec 2, 2009 – Jan 23, 2010

Opening:

Thursday, Dec 3, 6-8pm

Book Signing:

Thursday, Dec 10, 6-8pm

This show of photographs will be a small exhibit of portraits selected from a collection recently published in book form by UNO Press, “Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans, 1998-2009″, by Jonathan Traviesa.

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.