Sprit of New Orleans
by
Bruce Keyes

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This is not a book about New Orleans, it is a book of New Orleans. It comes from the heart's eye of a native, true to the creative passion that runs through our veins like fire. Bruce Keyes captures that passion, and our innocence, our sense of the sacred, our mourning and our unmitigated, irrepressible joy. That's what makes New Orleans important and that's what makes this book important.

Now, forever locked in the "Pre Katrina" era, this documentary of The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Mardi Gras, The French Quarter, Magazine Street, Mardi Gras Indians and Jazz Funerals represent just some facets of the jewel comprising the "Big Easy", that are elegantly portrayed on these pages. The subtractive quality of these engaging black and white photographs, depict the people observed through his lens, performers as well as spectators, their subtleties of gesture and expression, with the dignity they deserve.

It's a three decade odyssey through the streets of the city presented as a 228 page landscape format 9" x 13" case bound black and white book. The foreword by Dr. Richard Zakia, Professor Emeritus of the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Photographic Arts and Sciences accompanies photography by New Orleanian Bruce Keyes.

For information regarding distribution, or gallery exhibition of images from the book, please contact Bruce Keyes at BK Publishing. Contact information is available on the Contact page.

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Spirit of New Orleans, Hard Cover, 13"x9" 240 pages $50.00 + $10.00 S&H (Advance Order, will be available mid Sept 2008)