Book of the Week

In the Wake of Katrina
by Larry Towell

Larry Towell's photographs, taken in the days following Hurricane Katrina, make no attempt to be a comprehensive account of events or to offer analysis. Towell's haunting and poetic landscapes, many of them panoramas, depict the devastation and the lives of some of the victims. This is an intimate documentation of the hurricane's impact.

The pictures I took spontaneously—with a bliss-like sensation, as if they had long inhabited my unconscious—were often more powerful than those I had painstakingly composed. I grasped their magic as in passing.

Herbert List