
Tooth for an Eye
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“Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish” is the latest project from Louisiana based photographer Deborah Luster. The collection, recently featured at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, are haunting images of homicide sites in New Orleans. Luster found these sites in the local Times-Picayune newspaper and lugged her 8 x 10 Deardorff camera through the sweltering streets of New Orleans capturing what the Shaniman Gallery calls “the dizzyingly empty space at the core of violence”. The sites range from those of national headline making homicides, to unknown killings in back alleyways, dive bars and the forgotten edges of town. They document a cycle of violence plaguing one of America’s most beloved cities. The limited edition book can be purchased from Twin Palms Publishers.
All photos courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
Produced by Matt Beagle and The Kitchen Sisters for the Hidden World of Girls. Mixed by Jim McKee.
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“St. James Infirmary” by James Booker
“Elizabeth Chooses a Career” from Les Enfants Terribles by Dennis Russel Davies and Maki Namekawa
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3 Comments
Brilliant exhibit. Congratulations! I’m curious to now see Luster’s previous projects. Thank you for the great editing and sound, too.
Long live New Orleans!
Isaac Hernandez
2/24/2011
Wonderful work! I so appreciate the narration & music as well as the photography. Thank you for sharing.
Alison Jordan
3/11/2011
Haunting and unforgettable….thank you.
Lorri Holt
3/25/2011
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