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    Waterline

    landscape with voices

    by Bette J. Kauffman

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    This book is the final expression of a unique artistic, journalistic and political response to the devastation of New Orleans by the post-Hurricane Katrina failure of the levee system that was to protect the city. The author photographed the flood lines in New Orleans, constructed an interactive photo installation that grew from approximately 50 linear feet to over 200 and was installed 14 times in various cities around Louisiana and in Florida over the past 10 years. All along the way, viewers were invited to respond to the exhibit by writing comments on the foam core panels of the installation above and below the photomontage of the waterline. This book reproduces portions of the installation with its many acquired "voices." It contains two short essays, one discussing the photographic characteristics and contribution of the project and one analyzing the comments written on the panels. An Episcopal priest whose devastated church on Canal St. hosted the first installation in New Orleans for several months contributes a brief theological reflection on how the exhibit engaged faith traditions in helping people to process the disaster.
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    • Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
    • Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
      # of Pages: 60
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      • Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781364468347
    • Publish Date: Aug 08, 2015
    • Language English
    • Keywords Katrina, New Orleans, interactive, photography
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    Bette J. Kauffman
    Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.A.

    I took up photography many years ago after going scuba diving for the first time. I was a farm girl from rural Iowa and had to find a way to share what I saw with family and friends who would never see it first hand. As an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, I exhibited locally and won a couple of photography awards. In my 30s I went off to graduate school and then to full-time teaching, and within a few years became an academic department head. Under those pressures, photography fell by the wayside. Hurricane Katrina inspired me to pick up the camera again. WATERLINE: an interactive photo installation has been exhibited multiple times throughout Louisiana and in Florida, and a framed fragment of it in Philadelphia. Current photography projects include documenting Louisiana agriculture and Louisiana wildflowers, but my photographic interests are eclectic, ranging from nature to architecture and industry.

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