Robert Polidori: After the Flood
Publisher: Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783865212771
Condition: Fine / Fine
Item #: 110112
$95.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Lavender cloth-covered boards with title stamped in green on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim. 336 pp., with four-color plates throughout finely printed in Germany by Steidl.
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Description
From the publisher: "In late September 2005, the photographer Robert Polidori travelled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. Arriving at night he found few remaining inhabitants amongst the devastated ruins of the city. The next day he began photographing and entering the abandoned houses, many of which were still water-logged or carried the 8 ft tide-mark of the floods. Slowly he began to learn the system of graffiti signs and codes applied to the exterior of the buildings by the rescue forces. Each room he entered seemed to Polidori to be like a womb and he thought of his photographs as the work of a psychological voyeur, mapping the lives of the absent people through their abandoned belongings. The discovery of an abandoned body in one house reinforced his struggle with the problem of making beautiful images from human disaster. As with all his work, Polidori has succeeded in producing much more than a series of documentary images."
