New Orleans at Night: The Magic of the Crescent City After Dark - Hardcover

by Kerri Beth d'Aquinn (Photographer)

Explore the magic of the Crescent City after dark!

Stroll down Frenchman Street, enter a dimly light jazz club, and experience the calming aura of New Orleans at night. View the stunning façades of the Napoleon House and Brennan's Restaurant accented by soft-burning streetlights and the white glow of the moon. Photojournalist Kerri McCaffety takes you on a late-night tour of New Orleans, letting the intriguing beauty of the city gleam beneath a Crescent moon. Jackson Square lit by candlelight, the Superdome awash in color, and avenues twinkling with Christmas lights are just a few of the many memorable sights captured. Nightspots, Mardi Gras parades, holiday decor, architecture from the universities to the French Quarter, streetcars, cemeteries, fireworks, and even lightning all shine from the pages of this gorgeous collection.

Front Jacket

"New Orleans' night beauty is made of ephemeral things--cemetery angels, lacy tree branches, rippling reflections, and wisps of clouds covering the moon."
--from the Introduction

Explore the magical allure of the Crescent City after dark. Awash in the intrigue of night, the streets come alive under the gleam of the city's lights. From gas-lit streetlamps to neon signs, Christmas lights to the glow of the moon, these photographs capture the beauty and charm of New Orleans at night.

Acclaimed photographer Kerri McCaffety has created a stunning collection of images featuring some of the city's enduring landmarks, iconic scenes, and natural beauty. Admire the graceful architecture of Uptown. Explore the vibrant communities of Mid-City. Breathe in the expansive presence of the waterfront. Marvel at the slick modernism of Downtown. Experience the serenity of lush parks with haunting statuary. Roam the illustrious French Quarter. Revel in the celebrations of Mardi Gras.

A visual love letter to New Orleans, McCaffety's compilation shares her life-long infatuation with the city.

Kerri McCaffety is regarded as a top photographer and nationally recognized talent whose art hangs in galleries and museums throughout the country. She has been honored with the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas award and has lectured at the Louisiana State Museum, where her photographs are part of the permanent collection.

Also by Kerri McCaffety
Let's Walk the French Quarter - The Majesty of St. Francisville - Visions of the Vieux Carré - The Majesty of the French Quarter - The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue - Etouffée, Mon Amour: The Great Restaurants of New Orleans - St. Joseph Altars - Napoleon House - Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans

Praise for Kerri McCaffety
"Kerri's images reveal an inner city suspended somewhere in time, languid in its sultry air and splendid in its ethereal light. Though her subjects are diverse, they share an aura which few photographers ever capture on film."
--M. Lindsay Bierman, Southern Accents

"McCaffety captures architectural structures with an unobtrusive and engaging eye, remaining acutely perceptive to light and its consequence of shadow."
--Kyle Norris, Foreword magazine

"Kerri's work is lush with natural light that makes the images sensual and rich, and transforms the places she photographs into poems."
--Francis Ford Coppola

Back Jacket

Award-winning photographer and writer Kerri McCaffety reveals the enchanting quality of New Orleans as the moon rises over the Crescent City. Historic architectural gems, streetcars, cemeteries, pulsing nightspots, and breathtaking lakefront views bathed in twilight are just some of the many gorgeous images that grace this collection.

Author Biography

"Kerri's work is lush with natural light that makes the images sensual and rich, and transforms the places she photographs into poems." --Francis Ford Coppola

"One of the great photojournalists of America." --John Mariani

By the age of fifteen, Kerri McCaffety had already worked for a small-town newspaper and won numerous awards for her poetry. At Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, she majored in both photography and creative writing. She then moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University's Newcomb College. There she earned a degree in anthropology with a concentration in ethnographic documentary, going on to photograph people and their environs in Europe, Central Africa, and Haiti.

Her first publication, Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans, was named Book of the Year by the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association. The same group named McCaffety Author for the Year for 1998. She went on to receive the 1999 Gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers and was named one of New Orleans Magazine's People to Watch that same year. Her works have earned her Gold and Silver Benjamin Franklin Awards, an Alpha award, and two Silver Independent Publisher Book Awards, among other accolades.

McCaffety's writing and photojournalism have appeared in such publications as Oxford American, Town and Country, Historic Traveler, Colonial Homes, Southern Accents, Travel + Leisure, Metropolitan Home, and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. In 2007 and 2008, McCaffety served as features editor for Louisiana Homes and Gardens Magazine. She continues her award-winning work documenting the architectural and cultural history of her adoptive city of New Orleans.