Join us for a special program with journalist Del Hall and geographer Richard Campanella. Campanella recently wrote the book The Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s-2000.

From LSU Press:

With the aid of previously unpublished photographs and stills, critically acclaimed geographer and author Richard Campanella turns the focus around to the Emmy Award–winning photojournalist and presents the life of a quiet observer who captured critical episodes in American history. From Hall’s start in New Orleans at WWL-TV covering lunch-counter sit-ins and the integration of schools in the Ninth Ward to his lauded work for CBS News, filming Walter Cronkite, 60 Minutes, and Charles Kuralt, Campanella commemorates Hall’s remarkable contributions to journalism as the field expanded from print to television.

• 5-8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5:30-8:30 pm: Music by Alexandra Scott
• 6:30 pm: Discussion with Del Hall and Richard Campanella (book signing in the Museum Shop to follow)

About Del Hall

About Richard Campanella

Prof. Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of nine books on the geography and history of New Orleans, including Bienville’s Dilemma, Delta Urbanism, Geographies of New Orleans, Bourbon Street: A History, and most recently, The Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s-2000. The only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella has also received the Louisiana Literary Award, the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Monroe Fellowship, and the Hannah Arendt Prize for Scholarship in the Public Interest. He writes monthly columns for the Times-Picayune, Preservation in Print Magazine, and the quarterly Louisiana Cultural Vistas.

About the Discussion

Prof. Campanella will discuss the career of Del Hall, a journalist who began his career in New Orleans at WWL-TV. The two will chart Hall’s career through his extensive collection of negatives and prints that captured pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War and many others.

About Alexandra Scott

Alexandra Scott is a beloved artist at home in New Orleans, where her 2014 album, I Love You So Much Always, firmed up the support she’s had there all along. “Gas Station Lover” became a favorite on local station WWOZ and was nominated for Song of the Year at OffBeat magazine’s Best of the Beat Awards. Alison Fenterstock of The Times Picayune noted that she “has an intuitive poetic gift for expressing how things can be tragic, absurd and achingly beautiful all at once. Her songs…sneak up to deliver an unexpected emotional kick and a peek into her strange, lovely, big-hearted mind.” Adds Alex Rawls of The New Orleans Advocate, “There’s nothing theatrical in her singing, but her sadness sounds earned, her joy is felt, her heartbreak is painful, and much of it is modulated by humor–gallows, antic, or otherwise.”