Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith the New Orleans Museum of

the New Orleans Museum of Art

000 photographs: a body of vernacular work capturing over half a century of life in vivid colour

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Bertien van Manen rolled into photography almost by accident

to a loose thread on a button or a stray wisp of hair

Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith the New Orleans Museum ofBeautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighbourhood in Houston, Texas, where the artist grew up. In this ongoing project, currently consisting of over a thousand negatives, Deal sets out to provide a visual record of overlooked communities and the cultural characteristics gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as a depiction