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Hurricane Story

av Jennifer Shaw, Bruce Rutledge (Redaktör)

Andra författare: Rob Walker (Förord)

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"Like a mournful fairytale, Jennifer Shaw's beautifully staged tableaux are alternately sweet and menacing, filled with emotion but never spilling over into sentimentality. The poetic marriage of words and photos makesHurricane Story a children's book for grown-ups." --Josh Neufeld, creator ofA.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge "Even if you think you've seen it all where Katrina's concerned, trust me, you're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."--The Times-Picayune "This is the kind of book that reminds you that books can be beautiful objects." --The Los Angeles Times "Hurricane Story is a tabletop, toy box Odyssey. With simple objects, trenchant statements, and exquisite camera vision, Shaw relates an epic tale of displacement, creation and discovery." -- George Slade, curator, Photographic Resource Center, Boston "An engaging variation on a near mythic theme."--Gambit Weekly 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. Shaw's photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose. This clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author ofLetters From New Orleans and former "Consumed" columnist forThe New York Times Magazine.… (mer)
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This is a miniature coffee table book, less than 7 inches square, beautifully made as are all Chin Music Press Books I have seen. Each pair of pages contains one line of text and one hazy photograph conceived and composed by the author using a variety of toy houses, cars, trucks and people, to convey the essence of her family's retreat from and return to New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. (One blurber called it "a children's book for grown-ups", and that is quite apt.) It's effective, but the lack of focus in the camera technique gets a little stale by the end. One or two of the pictures remain incomprehensible to me after several attempts at interpretations. Others are quite evocative. I admire what the author did here, I applaud the publisher for putting it out, and as an object this book is gorgeous. But I wouldn't urge you all to go spend $18.00 on it, unless you're a photography buff, a collector of all things New Orleans-related, or just feel like contributing to the survival of groovy small presses like Chin Music. ( )
  laytonwoman3rd | Jun 5, 2012 |
What a weird little book. The photography was simplistic, it reminded me a little bit of shift tilt photography because of the short focus. I am sure the original photos looked better on glossy paper, but I see why the book was designed like it was. I liked all the images, but the naked dolls were creepy. I wasn't exactly sure I liked it at first, but it grew on me, and by the end I liked it and I'm glad I have it. -KA ( )
  invisiblelizard | Apr 3, 2012 |
Hurricane Story by Jennifer Shaw was not what I expected at all. I probably should have paid a bit more attention to the description I guess! What I was expecting was a large coffee table book with lots of black and white photographs that told the story of New Orleans during and after the hurricane; lots of pictures of the flooding, the destruction of property and the people of New Orleans dealing with the devastation.

When the book arrived it was small and when I flicked through I didn’t quite get it , my first impressions were that it was making light of a serious situation by a load of weird pictures of toys.

My attitude changed quite dramatically once I actually sat down and read through it. Although the story is simply told it is very powerful and some of the pictures were extremely atmospheric and moving and produced strong emotional reactions that I totally wasn’t expecting, even from a more traditional photo journal.

Photos like “The next morning we turned on the TV.”, “The news got worse and worse.”, “Ten thousand body bags seemed plausible.” and “Send in the guard.” seemed to me to convey the horror, helplessness and fear of the faceless military more than a straight photo could ever have done, while “We drove further north to the farm.” and “I’ll confess that fall was beautiful.” Posses an atmospheric beauty I never thought possible photographing toys. ( )
  twiglet12 | Feb 13, 2012 |
An intimate and starkly personal depiction of the best and worst moments of a New Orleans life - all told through starkly clear yet dreamlike photographs.
  JGKC | Jan 31, 2012 |
[Originally posted at Bookin' It.]

Fine-art photographer Jennifer Shaw was nine months pregnant and living in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina approached. She and her husband and pets evacuated and her son was born the next day in Alabama, the day the storm destroyed her city. They spent two months and 6000 miles on the road before returning home.

In 46 photographs, with single-sentence captions, Shaw tells the story of their experience. Shaw used a Holga camera, which explains the vignetting, blur, and soft focus of the square-format photos. The Holga is considered a toy camera (a simple, inexpensive film camera), and it's fitting that the subjects of the photographs are dolls, toys, and other small models that Shaw has used to tell her story, a graphic-novel memoir. It's very evocative, and very different from viewing "real" images of the devastation and aftermath.

The hardbound book, by Broken Levee Books, an imprint of Chin Music Press in Seattle, is absolutely gorgeous. The cover is real cloth and has a lovely sheen to it. The back endpapers feature a map of Shaw's journey, and the back cover has the tiny footprints of her then-newborn son. At a list price of $18, it's a bargain for a coffee table book - yet small enough to fit on an end table.

© Amanda Pape - 2012

[This book was obtained through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. It will be passed on to a young fine-art photographer who works with film and should enjoy it.] ( )
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“Shaw’s take is unique both in the spareness she uses to write of her family’s ordeal and because of her stunning photography of children’s toys to depict that experience–blurry, almost surreal, full color images stretching off every page—an interesting contrast to so many of the post-Katrina images to which we have become accustomed.”
tillagd av DaveJacobson | ändraHTML Giant, Roxane Gay (Sep 20, 2011)
 
“Photographs of children’s toys threw yet another fatiguing stain of kitsch into the cultural wash over the last decade, but a stunning exception is Jennifer Shaw’s use of plastic action figures in “Hurricane Story,” her memoir of two month’s flight and survival after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans….Unlike the majority of Katrina stories, which have portrayed the storm’s ruin of New Orleans or reflected on the lack of support to rebuild the city, Shaw’s narrative is told in circular form. As in fables and fairytales, her story is filled with almost unbelievable challenges, but the tale concludes with a beginning. After chaos and loss, a new cycle begins.”
 
“Hurricane Story is a small book—seven by seven inches—and aside from a brief foreword by Rob Walker and Shaw’s even briefer artist statement, the story is told in less than 500 words. Evacuating in the dead of night, nine months pregnant, Shaw breaks down two months and 6,000 miles on the road into poetic fits of a few words per page (the longest is twelve). And then there are the photographs. Hurricane Katrina made landfall and Shaw gave birth to her first son on the same day, so it’s somehow fitting that when she and her new family finally made it back home, she began to replicate their emotional yo-yo of a journey with toys and dolls—a king-cake baby, an army green soldier figurine, miniature wine bottles. The waters rose and stagnated, the baby cooed and cried, Shaw took up smoking again and fantasized about bludgeoning her husband. Taken with the unpredictable, spellcasting lens of a cheap Holga camera, the resulting forty-six images are mysterious, playful, heartrending, triumphant, and at times very funny.”
tillagd av DaveJacobson | ändraPelican Bomb (Aug 17, 2011)
 
“Hurricane Story is a miniature—an unabashed miniature, at once polite and audacious in its insistence on the importance of one family’s experience of a paradigm-changing natural disaster. In its honesty, reserve, and visual innovation, it is a vital piece in the mosaic of Hurricane Katrina memoirs, novels, and films. It is also a beautiful, strange, and provocative piece of art in its own right. May it find a great audience of readers, viewers, and sympathetic dreamers.”
tillagd av DaveJacobson | ändraPlop!, Cara Diaconoff (Aug 17, 2011)
 
“The images in this body of work are playful and eerie, menacing and reassuring. disturbing and mundane. They are honest, truthful, hopeful, and engaging. They are about endings and new beginnings, about the loss of the familiar and the restoration of order. Having seen them, I feel I now know about the experience of Katrina not just in terms of broken surfaces but in terms of one person’s experience from within.”
 

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"Like a mournful fairytale, Jennifer Shaw's beautifully staged tableaux are alternately sweet and menacing, filled with emotion but never spilling over into sentimentality. The poetic marriage of words and photos makesHurricane Story a children's book for grown-ups." --Josh Neufeld, creator ofA.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge "Even if you think you've seen it all where Katrina's concerned, trust me, you're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."--The Times-Picayune "This is the kind of book that reminds you that books can be beautiful objects." --The Los Angeles Times "Hurricane Story is a tabletop, toy box Odyssey. With simple objects, trenchant statements, and exquisite camera vision, Shaw relates an epic tale of displacement, creation and discovery." -- George Slade, curator, Photographic Resource Center, Boston "An engaging variation on a near mythic theme."--Gambit Weekly 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. Shaw's photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose. This clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author ofLetters From New Orleans and former "Consumed" columnist forThe New York Times Magazine.

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