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The outfits range from serious, semi-serious, to what the fuck?” he said. But that’s all part of the fun.
Jazz Fest and a crawfish boil—does it get any more New Orleans?
Elijah Bradshaw folds one last piece of clothing and exits the Magazine Street Buffalo Exchange clothing reseller where he works as a buyer. The sun bounces off his vintage glasses into the camera lens, and his handlebar mustache looks even better outside. “It’s about small details,” Bradshaw, a Savannah, Georgia, native, says of his approach to personal style. “That’s the way to stand out.”
Have you ever seen so many sailors in your life?!
This week’s Street Photeaux include: French Quarter Fest, a Magazine Street House Party, and the Brad Goreski book-signing event at Brooks Brothers.
Dundas watched as Hurricane Katrina smote the city, and as the city recovered, she saw the stylish side of New Orleans seep away: Even the local department stores stopped hosting large-scale fashion shows after Katrina. “We lost a sense of appreciation for the fun of dressing stylish or being over the top,” she says. So, she earned a degree in fashion design and merchandising from the University of Southwest Louisiana, and, with the intensity of a scholar, researched fashion events for two years in other cities, ultimately devising an event tailored for New Orleans.
George Dureau often takes photographs of naked men. He also draws and paints them. Naked dwarfs, naked amputees, naked African-American men. There is no middle ground with Dureau: His subjects are either physically deformed or perfectly constructed. Because the compositions are spare—if not stark—the viewer is forced to confront raw flesh, genitals, stumps. But Dureau’s views are empathetic, not voyeuristic.
In a field awash with academic treatises, jeremiads, and ideological harangues, Andre Perry has written an unusual book about New Orleans' school system: a fictionalized tale of broken schools, narrated by a young professor who moves to New Orleans to overhaul Lyndon Johnson High.
Getting lost in the trip.
Last month, during an OA trip to New Orleans, we met up with Richard McCarthy at the downtown Crescent City Farmers Market. Amid the stalls offering local goodies—from Ponchatoula strawberries to Gulf shrimp to goat cheese—we chatted with McCarthy about his work as executive director of Market Umbrella, a nonprofit whose mission is to “cultivate the field of public markets for public good.”
Some experts claim all Louisianans contributed to the state's food—except the black ones.
