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Aggregates Unseen: Imagining Post-Katrina New Orleans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2012

James Johnson
James Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, jjsn@ur.rochester.edu
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Abstract

Photography, understood as a technology for amplifying imagination, affords a useful tool for coming to terms with the massive forced migration caused by the Katrina catastrophe. Specifically, photographic projects by Robert Polidori and Richard Misrach reveal the exigencies of communicating in the wake of the disaster.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 659 - 668
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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