Monday, August 23, 2010

Paula Barr Returns to the Gulf Coast



Biloxi, Mississippi, 2008
GC 2

Paula was reared in Mobile, Alabama, where her roots still run deep.  She completed her art studies at Boston University and established herself as an artist in New York City while still a young woman. 

In the mid-1990s Paula spent 18 months commuting to the Gulf Coast for an art commission at the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, producing a 74-foot long photo mural celebrating the local geography; it is still the largest photograph in the world and the first to be made with archival glass tiles of her own invention.

Raised in a Jewish household during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, Paula can identify with the people neglected and displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the recent oil spill's travesty.

Her photographic goal now is to keep alive the memory of a world-famous regional culture and lifestyle that has been wiped out.



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6 comments:

  1. RMW44August 29, 2010 at 6:41 PM

    Dear All,

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/29/us/storm-children.html?th&emc=th]

    Children of the Storm Revisited - Video Feature - NYTimes.com
    Work in progress,Building UP America,Lets make a difference

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  2. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 12:12 AM

    An article on the situation in New Orleans:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-unluckiest-city-in-america-2064047.html

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  3. RMW44September 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    Provocative & Thoughtful:Try to think of others,
    try to help them................

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  4. Richard WomackSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM

    Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico - WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |
    www.wafb.com
    News from Baton Rouge,

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  5. RMW44August 30, 2017 at 7:49 AM

    Hurricane Harvey- 2017 Bloomberg (Houston Tx.)
    On Tuesday morning, disaster analyst Chuck Watson pegged $42 billion as a reasonable estimate for the cost of destruction Tropical Storm Harvey would leave in its wake. By dawn Wednesday, he had raised that to much as $75 billion.

    Harvey’s initial blast along the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane was bad enough, sending gasoline prices surging and crude futures plunging as refineries shut. Now the storm has returned, making landfall a second time in Louisiana, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

    The storm has brought torrential rain that breached a levee, threatened dams and may be destroying drains. That combination has analysts raising damage estimates by the hour and could easily push the catastrophe above the rank of Superstorm Sandy, the second-costliest weather disaster in U.S. history. In fact, AccuWeather Inc. founder Joel Myers said he expects Harvey to be more costly than the most damaging hurricane, Katrina.

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