Remants Of New Orleans & The Caribbean
Nathaniel Rich writes: ‘“While it actually resembles no other city upon the face of the earth,†wrote Lafcadio Hearn of New Orleans, “it owns suggestions of towns in Italy, and in Spain, of cities in England and in Germany, of seaports in the Mediterranean, and of seaports in the tropics.†There’s no better illustration of this than the photographs of Richard Sexton. For four decades Sexton has been playing a transcontinental game of Concentration, pinballing between New Orleans and the cities of the Creole diaspora—Havana, Quito, Cartagena (the photo is of a leper colony hospital there), Cap-Haïtien—documenting resonances in architecture and style. His photographs have now been collected in the gorgeous “Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere.”‘
