G Bitch and I will be there Saturday morning. I’ll be working two cameras to be sure…
New Orleans
From the G Bitch Spot, here’s an excerpt from her excerpt: When D.C. was teetering on the…
In 2000 I had the good fortune to shoot pictures of a UNESCO conference called, “Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” hosted by Tulane’s Deep South Regional Humanities Center. One of the featured events of the conference was a tour led by Walter Johnson, author of the 1999 book Soul by Soul*. He took us to major sites of the slave trade in New Orleans, as well as a tour of Evergreen Plantation. I recently came across those negatives and decided to finally read his book. Here are a few excerpts:
(source: New Orleans Public Library) Louis Armstrong from Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans: That neighborhood [Back…
We caught the Uptown Swingers Social Aid & Pleasure Club (love those pink suits!) featuring the To…
I’ll provide more impressions tomorrow, but here’s video of me asking McCain if he would debate in…
(photo credit: code poet) Kid drops out of school at the age of 14. Hangs out with…
An excerpt about 3 minutes long from the 1989 Canadian documentary Liberty Street Blues featuring the great…
Even Michael Homan acknowledges Chris Owens is apparently a friendly and likable person. She is a New…
There’s a battle raging over Michael Homan’s comments regarding Chris Owens. First he wrote an open letter…
The river is running high. I’ve looked at it before and after the Bonnet Carre Spillway diverted…
[Note: I had reason to revise a post from last week, so I did.] I grew up…