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davygibbs's review against another edition
2.0
I've got no particularly insightful commentary to offer aside from the following: I think this was a pretty dumb idea for a book and I'm surprised Aperture went for it.
kansan's review against another edition
4.0
I picked this up after I finished [b:Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right|28695425|Strangers in Their Own Land Anger and Mourning on the American Right|Arlie Russell Hochschild|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470283600s/28695425.jpg|48893201], because it was mentioned at the end, and I was looking for a visual companion to the stories of the petrochemical plants in Strangers. I have mostly only learned of or seen environmental issues in the Midwest, so this was crazy eye-opening.
The photograph collection alone I would definitely give 5 stars; while the infographics in the second part were very aesthetically pleasing, they were almost too artsy to understand? Similarly, I liked the essays a lot, but they were super dense-I feel like you'd need to go in with a pretty firm grasp on the subjects involved to fully understand them. Maybe I'm not really the target audience for this work?
Regardless, very interesting look into the industries around Louisiana and the environmental repercussions on the nature and people there.
The photograph collection alone I would definitely give 5 stars; while the infographics in the second part were very aesthetically pleasing, they were almost too artsy to understand? Similarly, I liked the essays a lot, but they were super dense-I feel like you'd need to go in with a pretty firm grasp on the subjects involved to fully understand them. Maybe I'm not really the target audience for this work?
Regardless, very interesting look into the industries around Louisiana and the environmental repercussions on the nature and people there.
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