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Preserving New Orleans: The Fate of Media Collections in the Wake of Katrina
This is a rough draft of the presentation notes of the speaker.
Some General Observations
- New Orleans damage was more from electricity being off than direct water damage
- Works in institutional collections survived; works in private collections and smaller community organizations didn't
- Most Disaster Preparedness plans assume that the larger infrastructure stays intact (phones and email will work, cultural workers will be able to enter the building soon after the disaster, etc.)
Most of you have seen images from post-Katrina New Orleans
But if you were only looking at media images, you missed a lot of the picture
And the closer you get, the more things you see
And the locals even have made their own images in the wake of Katrina
But since the Media showed us few images of Media itself, or of Cultural Institutions, we decided to get a grant to do our own.
We got money from
who got their money from
We looked at a wide variety of damage to various media
New Orleans: Film Projector
New Orleans: Still Photo Damage
New Orleans Films projected Helen Hill films
New Orleans Films projected Helen Hill films
New Orleans Films projected Helen Hill films
New Orleans Films projected Helen Hill films
New Orleans Films projected Helen Hill films
We looked at preventative techniques & their limitations
And we visited a variety of Cultural Repositories with Media Collections
Univ of New Orleans Library Special Collections
UNO Special Collections (Florence Jumonville)
LA State Museum
LA State Museum (old Mint)
Hogan Jazz Archive Tulane University Library
