Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina

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Notes

1 Telephone conversation with Thomas Neff, August, 2008.

2 Robert Polidori, After the Flood (Göttingen: Steidl, 2006).

3 David G. Spielman, Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007).

4 Chris Jordan, Bill McMillan, and Susan Zakin, In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).

5 Telephone conversation with Thomas Neff, August, 2008.

6 Neff’s photograph of St. Claude Used Tires, “Mr. Joe Peters and Crew,” p. 36, resonates strongly, as does the narrative description of this operation—perhaps the first to open after the storm—“Although not officially first responders, they were heroes just the same” (p. 37).