Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art [Hardcover]

Looking Againis as much about photography, in a broader sense, as it is about the specific photographs reproduced within it. It is designed to provide the reader with a glimpse into both the collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and into photography???s complexity. Through 132 objects and essays, Russell Lord explores the many histories of photography, addressing long-held beliefs and offering new ways of thinking about, and looking at, photographs. As the world moves increasingly toward an image-dependent style of communication, there has never been a better time to seriously examine our belief in or apprehension toward the photographic image. Standing on the threshold of what might be a turning point in humanity???s relationship to the photograph, this volume encourages the reader to dig deeply into photography: to look, and then look again.

The book is published on the centennial of the first photography exhibition presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art, in 1918.Looking Againis designed to provide the reader with a glimpse into both the collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and photography???s complexity. Through 132 objects and essays, Russell Lord addresses long-held beliefs and offers new ways of thinking about, and looking at, photographs. As the world moves increasingly toward an image-dependent style of communication, this volume encourages the reader to seriously examine their belief in or apprehension toward the photographic image.

• An exciting new look at one of the country???s most important photography collections
• 132 objects beautifully reproduced as full-page illustrations, published together for the first time
• With original texts by Russell Lord accompanying each image, this is an essential addition to scholarship on the medium that explores the many roles that photography has played throughout its historyCopublished by Aperture and the New Orleans Museum of Art