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John Woodin Booksigning at Octavia Tonight

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Tue, 08/24/2010 – 6:00pm

Tom Lowenburg      * Affiliate Program           o Join the Affiliate Program           o Create Blog Widgets           o Create Book Links     * My Book Lists           o My Wish List           o Create a New List     * Indie Stores           o Indie Store Finder Map           o Store Search           o Add a Store     * Community Members           o User Search           o Invite Friends           o My Friends' Activity           o Who's Friended Me?     * My Profile           o My Account Settings           o Interests, Location, & More     * Log out  City of Memory  New Orleans, Before and After Katrina  By John Woodin (Photographer)Octavia Books announces a book signing with photographer John Woodin featuring his amazing book CITY OF MEMORY: New Orleans Before and After Katrina.

One year before Hurricane Katrina flooded his childhood home, photographer John Woodin returned to the city that shaped his life. Led by intuition and fading memories, Woodin wandered the neighborhoods of his youth and photographed the architecture of the working poor, documenting the conflict between order and chaos, the effects of poverty and neglect, and the incongruous beauty of decay.

The day after the search for Katrina’s victims was abandoned, Woodin returned to the same locations he had photographed the year before. Most of the visual landmarks he had relied on were altered or missing, and the neighborhood where he grew up was barely recognizable. Pairing photos of pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Woodin creates a document of the changes resulting from that natural disaster.

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