Aric Mayer: The Post-Documentary Landscape

Aric Mayer: The Post-Documentary Landscape
Monday, September 17, in the SoHo Apple Theater at 103 Prince Street, from 6:30 to 7:15

When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, the aftermath was beyond the limits of representation. New Orleans was indescribable: at once dramatic, tragic, ambiguous, eerie, and dislocated. On September 5th, within a week of the storm, I entered the city and began work on a body of photographs about the city that would be shown in a solo exhibition in New Orleans at Gallery Bienvenu to commemorate the first anniversary of the storm.

On Monday, September 17, in the SoHo Apple Theater, I will be discussing the challenges of representing collisions between nature and culture, ruin and beauty, and order and chaos as evident in the American landscape, from the flooded streets of New Orleans to Death Valley, from the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin to the high-energy urban landscape of Harlem.