Michelle Elmore

Michelle L Elmore YA Heard Me

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Produktbeschreibung

Topic Popularity: Ya Heard Me (slang) means "Do You Understand Me"?  When a person from New Orleans is telling somebody something they usually say ‘Ya Heard Me’ at the end of the statement. Michelle L. Elmore’s ‘Ya Heard Me’ pays homage to the resilient, wondrous and soulful people of New Orleans. Many of the portraits in this book are captured during get togethers and or celebrations in or around the now defunct Lafitte Projects where regular folk and local celebrities celebrated friendship, life and community. Included on the pages of this book: Rapper Juvenile, Producer/DJ Manny Fresh, Boxer Roy Jones Jr, Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty to mention a few. New Orleans is one of the most written about and photographed cities in America because of the people and culture exude the spirit, humaneness and charm that makes New Orleans the most unique city in America.   Book Relevance: Michelle L. Elmore’s ‘Ya Heard Me’ is evidence that there was life before the storm. A majority of New Orleans natives have painful memories having survived Hurricane Katrina. What’s notable, was the pride, admiration and love the residents of New Orleans have for their city to Restore, Rebuild and Renew. Ya Heard Me represents a feeling of oneness that resonates with their collective essence and true meaning of life. To survive the ordeal of Hurricane Katrina and still call New Orleans home and themselves New Orleanians.    Current Cultural Conversation: Michelle L. Elmore’s ‘Ya Heard Me’ is the third collection in Elmore’s New Orleans trilogy, containing the most recent of her New Orleans photographs. These images focus on a rap and bounce scene that extends a rhythmic revolution which began more than a century ago in New Orleans and defines anew the beat for this country’s cutting edge. Elmore focuses on grills of gold teeth, cowboys, rappers, gangsters, DJ’s, hot boys, and regular neighborhood folk with rapper and bounce artist flash— outlandish and defiant declarations of style within a hostile and threatened environment.   Appeal to an Audience: Michelle L. Elmore’s ‘Ya Heard Me’ embodies the nostalgia of Billie Holiday’s ‘Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans’. “Do you know what it means, To miss New Orleans, And miss it each night and day, I know I'm not wrong, The feeling's getting stronger, The longer I stay away, Miss the moist covered vines, The tall sugar pines, Where mocking birds used to sing, And I'd like to see the lazy Mississippi, A hurrying into spring, The Mardi Gras memories, Of creole tunes that filled the air, I dream of oleanders in June, And soon I'm wishing that I was there, Do you know what it means, To miss New Orleans, When that's where you left your heart, And there's something more, I miss the one I care for, More than I miss New Orleans.” This monograph appeals to a wide demographic of people Worldwide who know what it means to miss New Orleans and will be a sense of comfort to homesick friends and family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Artvoices Books
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 306mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780998748412
• ISBN-10: 0998748412
• Artikelnr.: 47779169

Autorenporträt

Michelle L. Elmore arrived in New Orleans in 1989, immediately after suffering a personal loss. A decade later, she was living in the city with her young son Jack Marley, their lives centered around the people, places, sounds, sights, rituals and rhythms captured in her Trilogy of monographs. She left New Orleans in 2005, after the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina resulted in flooding because of the levee breach. She had $69 in the bank and had lost many of her personal possessions. But she was fortunate because two weeks earlier she thought to pack up and move her negatives. Her search through those 12 salvaged boxes yields these images. They document the friendships that, for Elmore, transformed alienation into a sense of community, family. They suggest joy and pain in elegant balance and they pay tribute to the city that turned Elmore in the artist she sought to be, and that lent her art meaning.