New Orleans 1867

by Van Zante, Gary A.

• ISBN13: 9781858942100
• ISBN10: 1858942101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd

Summary

This book brings together all the surviving photographs--126 of the original 150--from the remarkable series entitled "La Nouvelle Orleans et ses environs, taken of New Orleans in 1867 by the city's most important photographer, Theodore Lilienthal. Representing the first municipally sponsored photographic survey of any american city, and only recently rediscovered, the photographs--of every aspect of the city, from urban palaces and stately mansions to factories and asylums--were exhibited at the Paris World Exposition in 1867, before being formally presented to Napoleon III, Emperor of France from 1852 to 1871. This book places the photographs in the context of contemporary photographic practice, nineteenth-century city building and urban iconography, and of the need for reconstruction and economic renewal in the South following the devastation of the American Civil War. lavishly produced and engagingly written, it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the United States, the history of photography and the development of the modern city.

Author Biography

Gary A. Van Zante is Curator of Architecture and Design at the MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 10
"Our City Taken": Lilienthal's Topography of New Orleans	p. 16
Theodore Lilienthal (1829-1894): A "Practical Photographer"	p. 40
New Orleans in 1867: La Nouvelle Orleans et ses environs	p. 54
Map of New Orleans in 1867	p. 62
The Batture	p. 64
The Second District: The Vieux Carre, Canal Street, and Treme	p. 80
Lake Pontchartrain, the Bayou St. John, and Metairie Ridge	p. 111
The First District: The Colonial Faubourg St. Mary	p. 147
Tivoli Circle to the Fourth District and the upriver Faubourgs	p. 191
The West Bank and Downriver	p. 226
"To Scan the Crescent City Broadly": Lilienthal's Panoramas of New Orleans	p. 246
"New Orleans in Miniature": Lilienthal as a Stereo Photographer	p. 260
Chronology of Lilienthal's Studio Locations	p. 268
Appendix of Sources	p. 270
Lilienthal's Early Career, 1856-67	p. 271
La Nouvelle Orleans et ses environs: Lilienthal's Photographic Campaign for the Paris Exposition of 1867	p. 275
Bibliographic Essay	p. 286
Index	p. 266
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