Apologies for being a slowpost today--things got a little busy over here--catching back up with the internets found me lingering over this from Bag News Notes.
David Burnett, the photographer who's works are featured, has a larger retrospective here. There's a particular quality to many of the pictures. As BNN puts it:
Using his cherished large format Speed Graphic, the shallow depth of field created a particularly unusual effect. With Katrina's impact already other-worldly, Burnett's images add the impression that barely-recognizable automobiles might have been twisted inside a diorama, or that the scars wreaked upon the landscape might have taken place in (or else, actually left behind) a toy world.
I was quite moved by these images. My reaction, however, was almost purely visceral. My question is, what is it that these images accomplish that enhances, rather than diminishes or minimizes the poignancy of the devastation? (And, since I've blogged incessantly this week about Bush's pathological return to the Gulf, is there something inherent in Bush's alienation from the disaster that makes the alienation in these images even more compelling?)
Well put.
Burnett has also started his own blog, by the way.
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