RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...

I know this is off topic, sorry, but this gallery (especially in it's old
building in the 90's) had such a profound affect on me when I came upon it
quite accidentally on one of my many visits New Orleans (that I now realize
how lucky enough to have done now), while I was in art school. Here was just
about everyone I was studying up on the walls salon style in an old building
not looking at all like a gallery, no pretentiousness, no looks at the
college kid with long hair walking around the gallery. It really had an
affect on me seeing the people who influence me all in one spot, just there
without any of the big museum explanation walls of why the work is so
important. It was more like walking in to someone's house and they owning
the collection.

The reason for this particular email is that I think one of the creepest
things I've seen is that A Gallery for Fine Photography has a webcam and it'
s last capture is stamped 7:18:10AM 8/29/05.
http://www.agallery.com/Pages/departments/live.html

And if you look at the webcam image, no boards on the windows or door, the
sunlight coming in. Stuff on the first level of the building. Can this be
for real? Did they not board up at all? Does anyone know Joshua personally
and can find out if he is alright? I've only conversed with him through
email years ago.

-Chris
www.christopherlovenguth.com <http://www.christopherlovenguth.com/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:35 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...

The city of New Orleans is currently being flooded to the level of Lake
Ponchitrain, which is higher than about 80-90% of the city. The French
Quarter is in one of the highest areas of the city (but still barely above
sea level) and will not see flood waters as deep as in other parts of the
city, some of which are now under twenty feet of water.

The mayor of New Orleans has described the city as in "total devastation."
At this moment water is still flooding the city, and most of the pumps are
out of operation. It seems likely that it will be many days, if not weeks,
before the water will be pumped out of the city.

Sandy

DEAR CHRIS,
     Rumors abound in the news about the condition of the French Quarter.
Some
say flooded, some say only a few inches of water. Does anyone have specific
info on how badly it was damaged or flooded?
      My wife and I met the lovely people at A Gallery for Fine Photography
when
we went to the New Orleans Jazz fest in, I think, 2003. As a result of my
posting, someone on this list (was it you) told me to go there.
             CHEERS!
                BOB

 Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Lovenguth [mailto:chris@chrisportfolio.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:43 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Just realized something about New Orleans...

Even though it doesn't compare to lives changing (I have 4 very close
friends who are all safe and out of the city, but don't know if they can
ever go back), lives lost or maybe soon to be lost and a whole city that
will change forever, I just realized today that A Gallery is in the French
Quarter. What a vital (and I would say the most accessible to the pubic)
collection! It sounds impersonal to worry about something like that, but at
the same time, what a loss if anything happens to that collection.

What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
Orleans is more important then I think most people know since most Americans
really only think of drunken times in the tourist sections, but of the many
many places I have visited in this country, New Orleans really was rare in
that it had kept so much of it's own identity in times like this. I will
miss Old New Orleans, it will be rebuilt and good might come from all this,
but, it will never be the same.

-Chris
Received on Wed Aug 31 13:41:08 2005