Color photograph of a truck in front of a gas station with graffiti warning. Jane Fulton Alt, a Chicago photographer and social worker, spent two weeks in New Orleans in November as a counselor through the program sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Alt provided assistance and counsel to lower Ninth Ward residents returning to their homes in the city's Look and Leave program. While careful not to intrude on residents' privacy, Alt felt compelled to document the landscape of devastation and loss the hurricane left behind. Personal items such as a shoe, family photos or clothes hanging from a tree become poignant reminders of the individual losses the people of the region have suffered.
Acquisition
Notes
Collection of the DePaul Art Museum, Gift of the artist
Made/Created
Artist
Fulton Alt, Jane
Date made
2005
Place
City
New Orleans
State/Province
Lousiana
Country
United States of America
Continent
North America
Ethnography
Notes
United States, Chicago
American
Chicago
North America, United States
Chicago 1
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Signature
Location
Verso LRC
Transcription
Jane Fulton Alt 2005 from "Look and Leave: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
