Christopher Morris' Gulf Oil Spill Work Worth a Look...

http://magazine.viiphoto.com/feature/show/275/

Interesting GQ Photo/Multimedia on Oil Spill

BOOM: audio slideshow Big Issues: GQ.com

Summer Reads, Listens, and Watches!

Suggested Digestion
You need to be inspired in order to get where you are going here are some great tools:


READING

* Zeitoun – by Dave Eggers (textbook required) – Vintage
Since this is the required text, at the least, you should get on Amazon end order it, but start reading it, and you will be ahead of the game! It is a very fast read. So you are prepared, you will be asked to write a reflective essay on the book, so keep notes for your NOLA blog!

Suggested Reading:

Doing Documentary Work – Robert Coles - Oxford University Press

Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers – Ken Light – Smithsonian Books

The Journey is the Destination - The Journals of Dan Eldon - Dan Elson – Chronicle Books

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge - Josh Neufeld – Pantheon

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Douglas G. Brinkley – Harper Perrennial

Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City – Jed Horne – Random House

Why New Orleans Matters – Tom Piazza – Harper Perennial

The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities– Mike Tidwell – Free Press

A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams (Play, 1947)




WATCHING
*American Experience: New Orleans – PBS

*When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts – Spike Lee

*The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
These are the required films. You may want to watch them in advance of the rush of the quarter. So you are prepared, you will be asked to write a reflective essay on each, so keep notes for your NOLA blog!

Suggested viewing:

Treme – 2010 – HBO Series

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – 2009

Angel Heart – 1987

All the King’s Men – 2006

The Big Easy – 1987


LISTENING

This American Life - NPR - thislife.org
#296 "After the Flood"


This American Life - NPR - thislife.org
#297 "This is no my Beautiful House"


This American Life - NPR - thislife.org
#372 "The Inauguration Show"

RESCHEDULED! Spend Fall Break in Beautiful New Orleans!

Registration is now open for the 2010 New Orleans Travel and Study Program at Ai Minnesota.

There are only 12 slots, so register early!** Registration packets with all information are available around the Photography Program rooms, with the AD and Advisor! Plan your Summer schedule around this fun opportunity to help see New Orleans in a new light!

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE! A $500 scholarship will be awarded to one student. See AD for details!

FINANCIAL AID may be used for this course. See your Financial Aid Officer today!

TRIP INCLUDES
A Guided tour of New Orleans; directed and independent field work Daily feedback one-on-one and in critiques; free time to visit museums and galleries, and explore the city; a behind the scenes tour of the photography collection at the Ogden Museum; a visit and critique by Curator of The Louisiana State Museum, Tony Lewis; critiques with other special visiting artists from Louisiana; a behind the scenes visit to the New Orleans Times Picayune, and meeting with some of the Pulitzer Prize winning photography staff at the paper.

Airfare, lodging (quads), breakfasts, some tours, and most in-city transit.

**Registration deadline is June 21st. If we do not have 9 registrants by June 21st, the trip will be canceled and all deposits refunded.

New Orleans Travel & Study Program - June 21-29, 2010

Photo: ©2009 Micah Kvidt
Registration is now open for the 2010 New Orleans Travel and Study Program at Ai Minnesota.


There are only 12 slots, so register early!** Registration packets with all information are available around the Photography Program rooms, with the AD and Advisor! Plan your Spring schedule around this fun opportunity to help see New Orleans in a new light!


TRIP INCLUDES

A Guided tour of New Orleans; directed and independent field work Daily feedback one-on-one and in critiques; free time to visit museums and galleries, and explore the city; a behind the scenes tour of the photography collection at the Ogden Museum; a visit and critique by Curator of The Louisiana State Museum, Tony Lewis; critiques with other special visiting artists from Louisiana; a behind the scenes visit to the New Orleans Times Picayune, and meeting with some of the Pulitzer Prize winning photography staff at the paper.

Airfare, lodging (quads), breakfasts, some tours, and most in-city transit.

**Registration deadline is March 12. If we do not have 9 registrants by March 12, the trip will be canceled and all deposits refunded.

Summer 2010 Course Announced!

Get Your Own Book by the Students in the Summer 2009 Program!

Fresh off the presses, the books by students participating in the Summer 2009 New Orleans Travel and Study Program are now available! Click on the images to preview the books! As I get links from the students, I'll be posting them here.

Don't forget that you can come out on Thursday, September 10th to hear about all of the student projects at 5pm at the Hennepin County Library-Central Branch (Doty Conference Room). After the talks there will be a reception.