Tag: Dave Anderson

  • Dave Anderson in New Orleans – Lens

    Dave Anderson in New Orleans – Lens

    Dave Anderson in New Orleans

    John Schwartz tells why Dave Anderson decided the best way to cover the scope of Katrina was through a single city block.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/dave-anderson-in-new-orleans/

    What can one block tell you about a devastated city?

    Plenty, says Dave Anderson, 40, a photographer who chronicled the lives of people reclaiming their homes after Hurricane Katrina in the newly published “One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds” (Aperture).

  • Town Shows Its Face, if Not Its Reputation

    Town Shows Its Face, if Not Its Reputation

    NYT:

    Dave Anderson says the photographs in the book, published in October by Dewi Lewis, came out of the affection he developed for the small town; he considers them largely sympathetic portrayals of the beauty he sees in life “close to the bone,” as he put it.

    But many residents have responded with rancor, to Mr. Anderson directly, in online forums, and with phone calls to his Houston gallery. On her MySpace page Ashley Hammonds posted an essay she had written in response to the book. Some residents began using the title of the book as an epithet. On Kim McGriff’s MySpace page, Jessica Jaeger, 20, left a comment, part of which read: “Face it! You just aren’t that smeart! You should have been featured in the Rough Beauty book!” James McCullar, a 25-year-old Vidor resident, started a thread on the MySpace “Vidorians” group, where he referred to Mr. Anderson as “a joke just trying to make a dollar off our past.”

    Here.