The Met in New York has an interesting exhibit that I am going to try to get down to see. It covers post Katrina New Orleans as our modern Pompeii. I have been there and can picture in my mind the photo opps Ploidiri had. As the NY Times said, “Chernobyl to Havana -- in sometimes dangerous, topsy-turvy, out-of-time places -- generally bears witness to profound neglect.” Parts of New Orleans gave him must have served him well.
The Times concludes, “(His pictures) simply testify, as Mr. Rosenheim (in the intro) puts it, ‘to a city that care forgot.’ It's good of the Met to remind us.”
'New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori,'' is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, through Dec. 10; (212) 535-7710.
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