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Photographs from the new book, Destroy This Memory, by Richard Misrach.
Five years ago today, residents of New Orleans were struggling to survive and trying to navigate a decimated city in the days following the end of Hurricane Katrina. The storm had left indelible marks on New Orleans, and the people responded in kind, spray-painting messages of hope, cries for help, and seething phrases of darkly comic pathos all across the city's walls.
Between October and December of 2005, Richard Misrach used a pocked-sized four-megapixel camera to photograph countless images of graffiti messages. The previously unpublished collection now fills the pages Destroy This Memory, a book that documents the physical and psychological toll Katrina took on the city, and reveals something essential about humans in crisis.
Photographs from the new book, Destroy This Memory, by Richard Misrach.
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