First edition. Black and white photographs of pre-Katrina New Orleans. 34 duotone plates. Publisher's Description: Mark Swope is a Los Angeles-based photographer who focuses on the urban landscape. Paint & Memory documents the precarious balance between nature and structure in New Orleans. The photographs in this book, made in the years preceding Hurricane Katrina, are evidence of nature’s perpetual re-claiming of the human altered landscape. It is a conflict that has fascinated Mr.Swope ever since he first visited New Orleans in 1999. The quality of these images can best be described in the Japanese phrase mono-no-aware, meaning very understated and having a beautiful sadness.

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