defense /part II New Orleanian photography
July 23, 2007
Words and Pictures, from some of those who photograph New Orleans, those who stand in Defense of their city, their streets and neighborhoods, their houses and their home. and from those who have been there, and others who will never forget.
Vive le difference!! viva les nouvelle orleans!!! vive la vi!!!! liberte!!!!!
Lower 9
March 24, 2009
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
got mail?
still, the 9th ward
spring years after the federal flood,
are there really homeless people in this country, 10,ooo living under an underpass downtown, any downtown
‘
and all these empty, souless homes
waiting to be adopted by someone who needs to have a home,
is this really HOPE?
could be, should be, so when it be?
tomorrow?
New Orleans, Louisiana corner 2 story shop residence, on Elysian Fields, 1980 HDLC field shot, Polaroid sx70105bwclr#2
January 20, 2009
Originally uploaded by jeff lamb
1978 field survey Polaroid sx70
Elysian Fields
hardwar store
a shop residence, on a corner downtown from
the Vieux Carre…, the Preservation Resource Advocay documents the New Orleans historic vernacular architecture today, 2009, and says this,
To embrace change, you must embrace history! To seek change for the sake of change is a dangerous thing; we must first understanding what has lead us to where we are. I believe that us preservationists understand where our past and change coexist, and I am grateful that many of us have been able to connect via Flickr.
OH HAPPY DAYS!
New Orleans, Louisiana Elysian Fields 739-3, Preservation Resource Center Advocay , 2-story Shop Residence , galleried corner store
January 20, 2009
New Orleans Louisiana
January 15, 2009
Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady
new orleans lady always
sees a world of beauty
through another window
and into the light of day
Originally uploaded by M Styborski
the lower ninth: K+36
Three years in the making, my first book is now available at Blurb
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border, forever changing the lives of thousands of people. One of the most devastated areas was New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, submerged beneath millions of gallons of water, in some places by as much as ten feet.
This collection of photographs by M Styborski documents three years of loss and recovery, destruction and rebuilding, and despair and hope in one of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhoods.
The video above highlights a small sample of the 135 photographs contained in the book. The music is the appropriately titled ‘House Of Cards’ by Final Academy, a band from New Orleans many years ago.
Michael Styborski,
Gustav: Antonine near Magazine
Originally uploaded by mitraillette
“Not sure what condition this house was in before the storm so I can’t say if Gustav is guity of this. “
mitraillette
-near magazine street after Gustav, all the while remembering Katrina,
and the bayous of Louisiana as well, after this last hurricane Gustav
and now Ike, now Galveston, now Houston
Map All Demolition Permits Issued Post Gustav
September 22, 2008
1902 Mandeville, a nice corner Creole cottage, a landmark on the streetscape and neighborhood, soon to be demolished, even though it is boarded up and has a good roof in compliance w/ city rules…abandoned maybe, in decline, not, in need of repair yes. Need to be reviewed by the historic district review boards, now overidden by Mayor nagin and his rush to destroy his city’s heritage.
Map All Demolition Permits Issued Post Gustav
Originally uploaded by PRC Advocacy Department
Map All Demolition Permits Issued Post Gustav
178 demolition permits have been issued by the City of New Orleans in the Neighborhood Conservation District without review by the committee since 9/8/08.
View the map online here and zoom in to your neighborhood:
maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8& hl=en&am…
View photos of these properties:flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/sets/721576072 09781789/
word up,
houses down, granted demolition over the labor day weekend of Gustav, when no one is in the city. Demolition began before residents were to return, a story from a Nation of Morons,
Mr. Styborski writes this story,
“And then there’s the complete moron list. A woman evacuated for Gustav and returned to New Orleans to find a property she owned razed to the ground, not by the storm, but by Ray Nagin’s elves. The city was supposed to demolish #1425 and her property was #1429, but somehow a photo of her house was attached to the city paperwork for #1425. So, she’s out the 30K spent on renovation, plus the 40K of contracting equipment, (ladders, scaffolding, tools,) that was at the property.
Instead of finding the correct address, instead of checking with superiors about the discrepancy, instead of noticing the freaking renovations to a house listed as collapsing, these mental giants just swarmed in like locusts leaving destruction and confusion in their path.
So far, the city has no comment. Is it any wonder Nagin wanted us to stay away for another week? “
also,
http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=989
SpyBoy Demond
September 22, 2008
Originally uploaded by Christopher Porché West – A Studio On Desire
Christopher Porsch-West, photographer of New Orleans,
Save the ‘ BANK OF SOUL’
A Public Improvement on the Right-of Way
Corner of Louisa and Burgundy Streets
The ‘Bank of Soul’ is an attempt to both fix a disregarded and damaged sidewalk in Bywater and also acknowledges the historical and cultural legacies of our New Orleans. It was prompted by a response to an upcoming citywide art event, Prospect 1. (http://www.prospectneworleans.org/) Using historical materials, the corner has been transformed from a ditch of broken concrete and gravel nearly 8 inches deep to an environmental cultural icon complete with handicap access allowing for safe passage with multi-directional pedestrian use. The symbolism in this treatment is ‘artistic’ yet functional with careful concern for safety and restoration. At the same time as an openly public installation it depicts an honest representation of our shared cultural uniqueness and is truly sympathetic to our struggles to rebuilt and recharge the beauty of our city. As this installation is new I have received great support from many neighbors who have approved of its design and professional execution. It has been navigated by our police officers, postal workers and elderly and all have mentioned that it is a fresh and worthy addition to the landscape here in Bywater. Obviously anything new doesn’t go without controversy or criticism and with added measured of protection (installation of a long gone traffic sign) and improved visibility (empowering an existing high intensity lighting fixture) the site could be improved with regard to safety and usability.
The ‘Bank of Soul’ is meant to be a temporary solution to a widespread problem in our city – the streets and sidewalks all over the city are battered and in need of repair. Please support the pride in our city as keeping the ‘Bank of Soul’ captures the strength, joy and resilience that sustain New Orleans and her people and her timeless indestructible spirit.
christopher i have known since he arrived in New Orleans
the New Orleans Lady photographs on a corner in the Bywater
Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady
a beautiful corner store, way downtown at Poland Ave.,
just upper 9th ward, and across from the lower ninth and the canal,
of New Orleans
along the Mississippi River
an early corner commercial structure of masonry and signage, notes of its place in the past.
a beautiful color photograph by the New Orleans Lady
skeletonKrewe documents post Gustav destruction in New Orleans, again mor damage, again more to defend, or at least witness what passes thru time, in this city of history,
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
gustav
skeleton krewe documents after
Buy Bunny Bread
September 18, 2008
Soniat Street Demolition
September 18, 2008
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
the New Orleans Lady photographs the gable above a landmark gothic revival house on St. Claude possibly, we have been following each others footsteps thru the past ,and still only know the place as mystery among so many , grand and glorius sitting landmarks, ladies of architecture just waiting for all to come and all to DEFEND NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!
the National Guard ready to defend the City of New Orleans, in preparation for Gustav,
Third Anniversary, Do Not Forget.
Defend all that IS New Orleans,
little lambs on Elysian Fields
there are all kinda haint and history along this most important avenue in New Orleans…and in it all its humbleness ,there is beauty in all that is its demise, as well as grandeuar in all its glory to survive and be accompanied by such great beauty as down the street, or over nearby on Esplanade,
on another corner of the NewOrleansLady’s image world
NOAHsurvey,
documenting all that is historic about the 19th century vernacular architecture of New Orleans every day since Katrina,
a survey team and effort, day by day,
http://www.flickr.com/groups/noahs/
and as well, Squandered Heritage,
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/
snake and jake’s
June 20, 2008
Originally uploaded by anthonyturducken
terduckin!
the photographer and document maker-
panther
on a corner store in New Orleans, La.
June 20, 2008
Originally uploaded by anthonyturducken
i have to say, dear friends!
the terducken!
, the skeletonKrewe, the karen Apricot and the NewOrleansLady are rockin my boat, and there are othrs…not to leave y’all out…
What i want to say is that at a 6 month point in time,
you have made this one fine survey!
i have to say, i am surprised when y’all ask me, me here, and i’m not even there, where you might go next or shoot next or whatever, add a picture, no one has ever done something so nice for me, (I have to be careful what i ask for)
more than you have.
I am really glad to be able to help you out and be a part of your great efforts. it is after all, simply about a city we all love.
this is a survey team, each on your own, and in every way,
in DEFENSE and WITNESS to history and home
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love you guys. in the words of a jr. member mj
YOU ROCK!
j
sorry
November 3rd, 2007
Originally uploaded by boxchain
if i have ever hurt you, i am sorry.
Corner Store
November 1st, 2007
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
another corner in New Orleans
Poor Yet Noble, NOLA Up Rising, Ann Arbor/New Orleans
September 30th, 2007
Originally uploaded by jeff and leyla
NOLA UP RISING
got em going/walking up hill to work in the morning, and across the street walking home downhill after work! hopefully just out of range of the mad hand bill ripper
good thing i forgot a couple, guess i can save em for backups.
“The NoLa Rising project is an art campaign to encourage people in all neighborhoods / faubourgs / areas of Greater New Orleans to display public (& free) works of art, regardless of how simple or untutored or pedestrian it may seem to be. New Orleans is a unique and beautiful city that has historically embraced the spirit of personal freedom that supports the individual growth of the artist, musician and writer … the goal of the NoLA Project is to showcase that spirit.” rex
fire9 New Orleans, Uptown landmarks on Fire Sept., 07
September 29th, 2007
Originally uploaded by justanuptowngirl
The fire houses have yet to be built, or re-built. The firemen live in trailer’s and still have to fight as heroes in DEFENSE OF NEW ORLEANS,
on their own, unbelievable how this country turns their back on this, an city abandoned and left unprotected is so prone to arson and fire destruction.
The situation w/ help to re-build the fire department and support the fire fighters of New Orleans, is
IN-DEFENSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have seen two little girls and their father , a doctor die, on a Sunday in a November, Lucinda’s sixth birthday party, when i was young, there is nothing more frightening to me than fire, or drowning.
Fast Food – Closed
September 25th, 2007
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
early Greek Revival townhouse, apparently a center hall townhouse, and possibly the corner on a row of other similar structures. Dryades Street is in a neighborhood close to the uptown expansion of the city during the early 1840-60’s, as this type and style of early New Orleans architecture exhibits.
good work from ck
September 20th, 2007
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
food chris kirsch photographer of new orleans, now, excellent work continues, yr three,
“there is still alot of work to be done”, ck
Restaurant with Po-Boy
September 20th, 2007
Restaurant with Po-Boy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skeletonkrewe/1410105112/
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
food chris kirsch photographer of new orleans, now, excellent work continues, yr three,
“there is still alot of work to be done”, ck
Posted by jeffrey lamb
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/restaurant-with-po-boy/
Richard’s Food Store
September 15th, 2007
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
corner grocery, in a great on going series by chris
Greg Peters, watercolor flag August 28, 2007
read the full text on the post, or at cecily’s flickr picture here,
Dear Mr. President:
…concluding…..”Our recovery’s success, struggle, or failure will be intimately woven into your legacy, for better or worse. What Americans think about America is deeply affected by how this country rises to national challenges, none more significant than post-Katrina New Orleans. Fully restoring New Orleans to its formerly unique and permanent place in American culture is this nation’s greatest domestic challenge. Your leadership of our country through this difficult time will serve as an American character lesson for future generations.”
Sincerely,
Shelley Midura
New Orleans City Councilmember
District A
Originally uploaded by cecily7
August 28, 2007
Uploaded by cecily7 on 29 Aug 07, 12.54AM EDT.
“Go ahead, it was mad by Greg Peters at Suspect Device and
he say to let it wave everywhere.”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heavy Abstract Flood Line
never forget!
never surrender!
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS!
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
Dixie Brewery
New Orleans, Louisiana
the day before the 2nd Anniversary to Hurricane Katrina
Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady
the music will never die…
new orleans will survive
notok
Originally uploaded by Often Absurd and Humid City
Moldy flood line
Surreal Landscape – nope just a moldy flood line mark left behind from Hurricane Katrina
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
an incredibly unbelievable landscape,
a man made landscape of the flood plain gone unprotected and defenseless against all our own stupidity…
shall we not forget, or cast blame,
and remember that all is possible, if we could all come to the table, and create another “great society”, an agenda that first recognizes our need to save our cities, our history, our freedom to ….be in this country. Maybe not the greatest, but still has potential to be.
Originally uploaded by Christopher Porché West – A Studio On Desire
St. Roch Cemetery
and I will never forget a night or two, that I had nowhere to sleep but the levee.
Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady
2100 Block Iberville
creole cribs of great historic importance and representation of a city, its history, its people
pre/post civil war 1850-70 truly vernacular Greek Revival, of elegant simplicity
and humility
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
Food King – Gert Town – New Orleans
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
1139 St. Philip St Oct 20 Rebel 003
shame shame shame, a ghost now
let’s not forget the forsaken past.
Originally uploaded by nolareno
Squandered Heritage October Power Shot 003
an important and historic creole cottage, having Potential to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and should be!
Originally uploaded by nolareno
New Orleans 1984
30 years later, this house, now has Potential to be nominated as a National Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and should be, as should so many more I have, and others have pictured here, now having survived the K and Federal Failures to protect and defend our homeland, time to step up the effort to save every one of these historic architectural resources.
also, some thoughts on photography, and the documentation of the urban environment…see Home Sweet Happy Home
Originally uploaded by jeff lamb
Originally uploaded by Incognita Nom de Plume
look read see, look again.
a brilliant! photographer who has photographed
New Orleans so beautifully well !
so much could be said about this work, but i would rather look, read, see, and look again!
and again….
and visit the Museum of Dust
as well.
Originally uploaded by Incognita Nom de Plume
1139 St. Philip St Oct 20 Rebel 009
I ran into the nolareno, and found Treme, and I began to look for negatives I had of this house….after I’d run into Karen, and found Squandered Heritage, a year ago, and now looking back, I see this is a good series documenting some of the destruction that was occurring then, especially in the Treme, Laureen’s neighborhood. I found my negative, from 1978
So we don’t forget.
squanderedheritagerebelseriesoct20
Originally uploaded by nolareno
A House in Mid-City
Looking back nearly a year now, I don’t forget this photograph of an old and beautiful shotgun house, with its own unique iron laced front gallery, it is a star to remember, for sure.
Originally uploaded by Editor B
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
another corner grocery open for business, sort of.
Among so many I have collected of Karen’s photographs, this is one of my favorites, and I would put this on the cover of her book I would publish, as if i ever could.
Her title; “Me and the Crackheads”
an unusual two door(?) one windowed shotgun house, my question is which side gets the window?
Originally uploaded by Christopher Porché West – A Studio On Desire
Christopher Porsche West joins those who document the devastation of New Orleans lower Ninth Ward, in Defense of New Orleans, for the BBC, and he wrote me a nice note today!, love the friends i’ve had before, and made since K and the Federal Flood two years ago…Christopher writes to me,
buddy….
JEFF:
Someone asked me to take some pics of the current scene in the 9th for BBC that’s why your seeing these pics of the destruction still evident.
Didn’t want to go out in the heat… but have to do one for the gipper… so to speak.
PORCHE
thanks, chris
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
grocery store, a part of a contemporary survey of New Orleans architecture, as photographed by k apricot! who is everywhere!
I actually got to do a survey of historic architecture in northern Michigan where I could use a term I thought I’d made up in New Orleans, didn’t see many but they were there, from the 30’s
Western Store Front
in this case, a Happy Western Store Front facade
steven wilkinson, New Orleans photographer
Originally uploaded by InspectorOyster
Originally uploaded by chuckp
Originally uploaded by jenstylee
jen stylee
Originally uploaded by jac currie
Defend New Orleans
i saw jac currie on tv, well off the webcast on cousin ellen’s show, i will get back to this but i have to get a couple more beer
defend new orleans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!buy a shirt, and your money will go to these good causes listed on the page! www.defendneworleans.com
New Orleans Kid Camera Project
New Orleans Musician’s Relief Fund
| Watch The Defend New Orleans Interview on Ellen Degeneres |
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
see the Wall Street Journal article about Squandered Heritage, Karen and the fight against the City’s arbitrary and indiscriminate decisions to demolish the city and its architectural heritage, and forcing people out of their homes.
you can read the full text on
Dangerblond’s blog. and also read , b.rox, erroneous demolitions
“Two-Story Builder’s Craftsman with a Western Stick influence and can be seen with deep roof overhangs, or with gables with brackets on other wood joining details. ” Krotzer. The original details and fabric on this house, including the little roof over the door, (a pedimented entablature?), the multi-pane gable window , the detailed gable vent, exposed rafters, all show the integrity of the historic fabric, as originally intended, nearly 100 years ago. A modest structure, but one that is in itself important, but also important to the neighborhood as a whole.
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
A Shop-Residence, an important New Orleans Building type integral to any neighborhood in the city, this is an early nineteenth century Creole Cottge on a corner that was not only the corner store, but a residence for the shop owners.Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
corner grocery
“just off of Canal & Broad (Cleveland Ave maybe)
missing weather boards where looters went in to steal the copper wiring
Flood mark right around six feet.
20 days until the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina”, chris
groceries 
Originally uploaded by boxchain
Originally uploaded by skeletonkrewe
628-30 Hagan
IMMINENT DANGER!!!!!
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
Security Doors with Watermark Originally
Originally uploaded by New Orleans Lady
“There is something to be said for justanuptowngirl’s comments… The city is filled with lots of good and bad as it always has and always will. There are people doing the right thing for the right reason with the wrong result. There are people who are doing the wrong thing for the right reason with all kinds of results. There are people spinning their wheels doing not much more than constant complaining. There are those that live comfortably numb to the suffering in the city and do nothing and finally there are those that just plain are “suckin’ the blood out of the genius of generosity”. For me personally, to stay true to the things I think are right and in which I think I have something to offer accompanied with a positive outlook works and hopefully, just maybe brings others to the table as well”
a note i received this week, and a beautiful picture taken by the neworleanslady
see Karen Apricot HDLC Hagen Street
Originally uploaded by jeff lamb
Posted by jeffrey lamb
rebuild new orleans
Originally uploaded by Karen Apricot New Orleans
Editor B, Imminent Threat, July 30
Those structures determined to be an “imminent threat”, and are to be demolished, 1700+ properties. However if you look, you will see so many neighborhoods of historic quality arbitrarily determined by the city to be a threat.
a letter to the Editor B, a mid-city neighborhood journalist and activist, recieves a letter from a neighbor,
in response to a Times_Picayune story, about boys on his porch.
Originally uploaded by Editor B
the Karen Apricot, july25
Skeleton Krewe in defense of public safety, free expression, artist, collaborator, patriot
Karen Apricot
Squandered Heritage,
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/
NolaReno, commrades, together in a fight to save New Orleans Neighborhoods, and architectural resources, and the homes of those who have no one to fight for ther survival, and are the city’s pictoral documentarians of all that is the city fabric…..
of p-Katrina destruction, demolition and active collapse.
DAY AFTER DAY!
NewOrleansLady, another
Boxchain, the urban pioneer and neighborhood man with a camera, Bywater’s best
dsb nola, a photographer of event, and passion
IMG_7841 a photo by the New Orleans Lady.
a corner two story shop residence, next to my first shotgun that i called home, from 1978-80.
I had a darkroom in the kitchen, to do HDLC photos.
thanks nolady
M Styborski, poet photographer,
of the city he loves.
I was just a downtown boy really, but hey
justanuptowngirl, is there now
Girl in Black and White, Carrollton Cemetary, New Orleans
