[Leica] Re: [SEEPHOTO] Another 50 9th Ward Images

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Mar 11, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> I'm done shooting in the Lower Ninth Ward. And all of the publicity  
> in the
> past few weeks has created some positive results. They are now  
> bulldozing
> some houses and trying to find the hundreds of lower 9th ward  
> residents who
> are still unaccounted for. It is likely that most or all of them  
> are in
> attics and under debris. Corpses in the Lakeview area are being  
> found in
> bathtubs covered with mattresses (something people are told to do  
> in case of
> severe hurricanes and tornadoes). The number of people unaccounted for
> Louisiana and Mississippi is in the thousands. When Feli and I walked
> through the deserted neighborhood, Feli could detect the smell of  
> corpses in
> several places. My nose is 20 years older and not as sensitive.
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> This will take you to image 61. I'm up to 110 so far.
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> http://www.400tx.com/9th-61.html
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> Feedback of all kinds is welcomed. After about 20 rolls of film  
> down there,
> I feel like I've learned a lot but still have a lot to learn. Most  
> of these
> latter shots were taken with a 50/2.8 Elmar (most recent version).


technically these are quite beautiful... and  they document the  
magnitude of the devastation... how does one get down to details that  
capture the human scale, the loss, and the emotional imapact....

I think of the Hindenburg and the famous announcer's remark...ohhh  
the humanity...

Steve
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> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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