Jane Fulton Alt began actively exploring the visual arts while pursuing her career as a clinical social worker. She has studied art and photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and the Evanston Art Center, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work can be found in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Yale University's Beinecke Library. Find out more about Alt and her work at www.janefultonalt.com.
In Look and Leave, Jane Fulton Alt turns the human heart into a
shutter lens. Her photographs and stories of the men, women, and
families brought into New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward for a first
look at the ruin and spoil of their homes is a pointed, quiet
celebration of worthy lives, unbowed by devastation. These pictures
will stay inside your heart and remind you how photographs can be,
as a little girl sings through her surgical mask, 'This little
light of mine.'--Scott Simon "National Public Radio"
The complex emotions that are released in us when we dwell in Alt's
photographs mirror the responses that she observed in the people
whom she accompanied in the 'Look and Leave' program and then
experienced for herself in follow-up visits. If we are attuned to
these images, it is inevitable that they will evoke in us
reflections on times when parts of our own material selves were
devastated and destroyed, how we grieved and remembered, how we
loved and raged and sorrowed and even laughed with irony.--Michael
A. Weinstein "coauthor of Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual
Class"
The most photogenic disaster in American history since the Civil
War was met by photographers with an averted gaze, precisely
because it was so photogenic. Alt realized, however, that photogeny
is destiny, and she photographed the catastrophe the way it called
for: photogenically. Brilliant head-on gazes at what was crying out
there gave her camera a direct pass into the underworld of tragic
beauty that was the storm. The pictures are the Destroyer's
official portraits.--Andrei Codrescu "author of The Posthuman Dada
Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess"
Once you call New Orleans home, she never leaves your soul. Her
flavors, textures, sights, sounds, and, most importantly, her
people live and breathe in the heart of every person lucky enough
to know that special magic. Jane Fulton Alt's photos and stories
remind us all to rebuild and rejoice.--Chef Emeril Lagasse
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