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Aggregates Unseen: Imagining Post-Katrina New Orleans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2012

James Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, jjsn@ur.rochester.edu

Abstract

Photography, understood as a technology for amplifying imagination, affords a useful tool for coming to terms with the massive forced migration caused by the Katrina catastrophe. Specifically, photographic projects by Robert Polidori and Richard Misrach reveal the exigencies of communicating in the wake of the disaster.

Type
Reflections
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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