Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2008 - (Page 40) ability to create dream-like black and white photographs that can also be psychologically raw, incorporating history and memory with a poetic approach. She has a number of books of her work: At Twelve, Mother Land, and Immediate Family, which featured photographs of her family — nudes — which stirred controversy when they were published. Deep South explores the landscapes of Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia and Louisiana through photographs that reflect the ethereal, strange beauty of the South. The Ogden will showcase selected images from her most recent book, What Remains. A five-part meditation on morality, the photographs of What Remains are moody and somewhat unsettling, with images of the Antietam battlefield, close-up portraits of her children, and the process of decomposition rendered in a 19th-century photographic process. Lisa Silvestri‘s work is no less personal than Mann’s, but she takes a more dramatic approach. Born and raised in New Orleans, she currently lives in New York. Her background includes having designed her own children’s clothing line. While doing that, Silvestri created all of the company’s advertising images, which gave her experience photographing children. She turned her focus to photography solely in 1997. She returns periodically to New Orleans, and one such visit produced her New Orleans Portrait Project, which will be at the Ogden. These black and white photographs are portraits of the students at John McDonough Senior High School Landscapes infused with Color: Jorge Otero A native of Cuba, Jorge Otero immigrated to the United States as a teenager and lived in Miami, New York City, South Carolina and New Orleans. He studied photography at the Pratt Institute in New York in the late 1960s and the University of South Carolina in the late 1970s. Otero traveled widely in Europe, South America and the United States, and many of his short-term and extended photo essays are drawn from his travels. Otero regularly photographed New York City for almost 35 years, as well as extensive bodies of work of the American Southwest, the marshes of South Carolina and New Orleans. He undertook systematic photo essays documenting a one-month trip down the Amazon River, and a one-year study of the architecture of Charleston, S.C., photographed at night. His last photo series was of color photographs of a defunct sugar mill in Louisiana shot with a 4 x 5 view camera, which the Ogden will exhibit. A master of color photography, Otero printed his own C-type color prints in an era dominated by machine printing and digital images. Otero passed away in New Orleans in 2003. In addition to these exhibits, the Ogden has three permanent galleries dedicated to Southern photographers, or photographers who have focused on the South. Past exhibits have included images by Eudora Welty, Elmore Morgan Sr. and William Eggleston. —Sue Strachan Public Relations Director OGDEN AFTER HOURS Take in the art while enjoying music. A kid’s activity table is also on hand for busy moms and dads. March 20: Carl LeBlanc March 27: Paul Sanchez April April April April May May May May 3: Marva Wright 10: TBA 17: Tom McDermott and Connie Jones 24: TBA 8: Ann Savoy 15: TBA 22: David Greely 29: Packway Handle Band Thursday nights, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free to members; $10 for nonmembers. 40 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Spring 2008 FRANK JOHNSON\FOTOGRAPHZ.COM http://www.ogdenmuseum.org
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