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JENNIFER SHAW b. 1972, Lafayette, Indiana Delivery Truck, Relics Series, 2003 Toned gelatin silver print; 14 x 14 in. Collection of Jennifer Shaw Jennifer Shaw’s photography is based on both a world observed and a world constructed, and is typically recorded through the laughably imperfect optics of toy cameras. Shaw moved to New Orleans in 1994 “in pursuit of the artist’s life,” she says. As one of a generation of photographers who experienced Hurricane Katrina, she has used this epic event to both shape her work and to become an advocate for the effectiveness of the medium as an instrument of transformation and change in her adopted city. Though photography today is largely a digital realm, Shaw has remained dedicated to imagery captured on film. She prints her black-and-white photographs in a darkroom, using the post-development technique of toning to add both a slight color cast to the prints and to enhance their permanence. JHL ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA 343 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1354 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1354

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