Cultural Visualization of Huricane Katrina.
Here is the link:
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_16/index.html
Here is the blurb of the issue:
It has been nearly six years since Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf
of Mexico cutting a swathe of devastation and shock through the psyche of
the American people. Between August 23rd and September 1st, 2005, mass-scale
human suffering and overwhelming property damage and losses ensued in the
wake of government uncertainty and inept relief efforts. The most severely
affected area, New Orleans, which flooded as the levee system buckled to the
might of the Category 4 hurricane, continues to reel from the storm and its
deeply political consequences today. While tourist attractions do their best
to convince us of the city’s recovery, high-water marks scar the exteriors
of abandoned buildings, reminding visitors and residents alike of the
uncomfortable truths about Hurricane Katrina and the many displaced people
who continue to wait to reclaim their homes. This issue of *Invisible
Culture* seeks to explore how our hypervisual world visualized Hurricane
Katrina, from 24-hour news networks’ live coverage to home videos made into
documentaries, from personal photos posted on blogs to the work of
photojournalists on the front pages of newspapers all over the world, and
from individual memorials to state-sponsored ones. Through the insights
provided and the questions posed by Brian Greening, Maria Brodine, William
Taylor and Lindsay Tuggle, “The Cultural Visualization of Hurricane Katrina”
contributes a critical counter-vision to dominant mass-media interpretations
of the devastation surrounding the events of August and September 2005.
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