Louisiana 24/7

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Summary: New Orleans Times Picayune
Review: "When I return to our home in Louisiana, on Bayou Teche, a tidal stream on which members of my family have lived since 1836, I look at the red sun beyond the live oaks on the bayou, the smoke from stubble fires drifting off the fields, the hammered gold-and-purple light on the sugarcane, and in the gloaming of the day I want to see the moment caught forever inside a photographer's lens, before the land developers and the builders of strip malls and discount stores have their way with what I think are the gifts of both heaven and earth."

James Lee Burke, writing in "These United States"

James Lee Burke's wish to have precious moments of Louisiana beauty captured in visual images is answered on every page of 'Louisiana 24/7: Amazing Photographs of an Extraordinary State,' from Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen.

Looking at these photographs, it's easy to see why Louisiana is such a storied state. Here are the images that make up our past and our present. No matter how you live your life here, you'll find something in "Louisiana 24/7" that catches your heart, makes you smile, brings back a memory or inspires a hope. It's a fine reminder of all that we are and can be.

By Susan Larson, Book Editor for New Orleans Times Picayune, 9/29/04