Photographs (c) Deborah Luster/Courtesy of Twin Palms PublishersDEBORAH LUSTER
Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish
Jan 6 – Feb 5, 2011
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY513 West 20th Street, NYC
The New Yorker
Murder In The Round by Vince Aletti
"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 Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (Twin Palms, 2010), 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, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms, 2003), 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 influence."–Twin Palms Publishers
NPR Interview: After Deborah Luster's mother was murdered, Luster turned to photographing prisoners...read more here
NPR Interview: After Deborah Luster's mother was murdered, Luster turned to photographing prisoners...read more here
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18 comments:
the circles, for some reason it fits so perfectly to the city's architectural's style.
combining with this theme and tittle it gets even more intense curious and pretty.
This is AMAZING!
I vaguely remember listening to the NPR story, so I checked the link again --fascinating story and haunting photographs. Thanks!
Intense is right, and so is powerful.
Elizabeth there is indeed something about the circles with the subject. Amazing!
You have been such an inspiration to me!
Happiest of Holidays & All the Best in the New Year!
xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
My best wishes for you too next 2011. Thanks for sharing so much art in 2010. Your blog is really inspirational.
Merci bonne fêtes à toi aussi
your blog is excellent and allways I love it to look at your blog, I wish you a very nice time for 2011 and hope to find more such onderful things at your blog, big hugh Kathrin
MAY "LIGHT" fullfill your days in 2011,
HELENA
Great Liz! Thnks for all.
Happy New Year!
Dear Liz
happy 2011 for you and your family
from Buenos Aires, Argentina
such a magnificent blog that you share with us all - a truly generous gift every day of the year - wishing you and yours peace and love! jenean
Hey Liz, 2011 even better for you! Thanks so much, Foquinha \o/
Thanks so much for your kind wishes. I would like to wish you and your family all the very best this holiday season and a prosperous 2011!
Betty
Thanks for share it. Really curious photographs.
All the best wishes to you and to all of us in 2011!
Edition congratulations very well prepared.
That our hope is not just a dream but a reality this new year. Happy New Year!
Hi Liz! Hoping you have a wonderful Holiday Season and NEw Year! Thanks for bring these wonderful Artists & inspiring storys..journeys to us!
Really beautiful images and great work!!!
Thanks and many wishe for 2011!!!
Ciao Marco
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