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One Block: A New Orleans
Neighborhood Rebuilds
Dave Anderson and
Paul Moakley in Conversation

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds follows the reconstruction of a single block from 2006 to 2010 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, delivering a powerful portrait of the storm's ongoing physical and psychological impact on the city and its residents. Using portraiture, still lifes, and abstract images, Dave Anderson documents the evolution of both the street and its houses as residents rebuild, exploring the very nature of community while testing its resilience. Join photographer Dave Anderson and Time Magazine photo editor Paul Moakley in conversation on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the release of the Aperture book One Block. A book signing will follow.

Dave Anderson has been recognized as "one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene" by Germany's fotoMAGAZIN and named a "Rising Star" by Photo District News. His project Rough Beauty was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition awarded by Center, Santa Fe, and was published with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work "as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic." Anderson's work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Paul Moakley is an editor, photographer and curator. He lives and works at the Alice Austen House Museum, home of one of America's earliest photographers, in Staten Island, New York. He has curated a number of exhibitions by photographers such as Nina Berman, Arlene Gottfried, Cristobal Hara, Tim Hetherington, Trent Parke and Larry Towell. Paul has worked as the photo editor of PDN (Photo District News), Senior photo editor at Newsweek and is currently the Deputy photo editor of TIME.