While selecting images for the book “Louisiana Lens,” John H. Lawrence, the now retired curator of photography for the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC), had more than a million photos
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Drawn largely from the holdings he helped assemble over a four-decade career as one of America’s leading photographic curators,
Working with a paper magnate (and without a budget), he helped put together what later became the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s celebrated photography collection.