2024
“[A] half-century of Crescent City life captured through Dalt Wonk’s incisive essays and Josephine Sacabo’s arresting black-and-white photography. Together, their work illuminates the city’s texture: its beauty, contradictions, and the singular characters who shape its story.”
— Richard Goodman, French Quarter Journal
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“Josephine’s photographs portray the rich humanity and odd contrasts of New Orleans — a child in a doorway next to a poster of exotic dancers, two elderly ladies gossiping on a park bench against a background of young cadets at attention, a solitary old man in a wide-brimmed hat gazing out at the fog-shrouded Mississippi…Wonk and Sacabo are now inseparable from the place they imagined and evoked in plays and stories and photographs. Once you’ve been steeped in their world and their art, you see the city anew.”
— Jim Amoss, former editor, The Times-Picayune
Images by Josephine Sacabo
Written by Dalt Wonk
10 x 12 inches, 208 pages
39 photographs
Cover: matte foil stamped hardcover
Published by Luna Press
Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation
Writer Dalt Wonk and photographer Josephine Sacabo arrived in New Orleans in 1970 and made their home in the French Quarter. As they settled into a new life amidst the city’s brewing economic boom and cultural watershed moments, Wonk and Sacabo began chronicling the vestiges of New Orleans as it once was.
For their first collaboration in nearly 15 years, Wonk and Sacabo have assembled a selection of their best journalist work in NEW ORLEANS 1970-2020: A PORTRAIT OF THE CITY, providing an indelible retrospective on some of the Crescent City’s major cultural landmarks over the last 50 years.
