Shotgun houses...vibrant street scenes...grand villas and mansions...colorful facades... they're all part of a historically rich, interconnected Creole world. New Orleans is often hailed for its distinctive Creole heritage--evident in its food, architecture, and people--but it is far from alone. Its creoleness may be unique to the United States, but New Orleans is part of an entire family of Latin Caribbean cities with similar colonial histories. Founded as New World outposts of Old World empires, these cities forged new identities from European, West African, and indigenous influences--by turns inspired by, in defiance of, and adapted from all of them. In Creole World , author and photographer Richard Sexton explores the architectural and urban similarities among these cultural cousins, from Haiti, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Bolivia, and Ecuador back home to New Orleans. Setting the stage for the book's two hundred color photographs are essays by Creole-architecture scholar Jay D. Edwards and photography historian John H. Lawrence. Together, they take readers on a fascinating journey across time and place, through the ever-changing Creole world. All the things that make New Orleans unlike North America confirm that it is part of another cultural world shaped by Spanish and French colonialism, West African labor and beliefs, and the rise and demise of the empire of sugar. Creole World is a visual homage to past cultural connections and a vivid present. --Randolph Delehanty, author of Art in the American South and coauthor of New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence Marked by accomplished photography, perceptive essays, and an elegant design, Creole World offers the reader insights into a textured, layered, and lush world. --J. Richard Gruber, director emeritus, Ogden Museum of Southern Art In Creole World , that old New Orleans greeting 'How's your mama an'nem' gains depth and resonance. We learn that 'an'nem' includes our cousins in Haiti ( cozen nou an Ayiti ), our uncles in Cartagena ( nuestros tíos ), our aunts in Cuba ( nuestras tías ), and a wealth of other friends and relations in Panama. By depicting these connections so beautifully in pictures and words, Richard Sexton has made the Creole world at once larger, smaller, and better. --Lolis Eric Elie, writer for HBO's Treme and coproducer/writer of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Marked by accomplished photography, perceptive essays, and an elegant design, Creole World offers the reader insights into a textured, layered, and lush world. --J. Richard Gruber, director emeritus, Ogden Museum of Southern Art In Creole World , that old New Orleans greeting 'How's your mama an'nem' gains depth and resonance. We learn that 'an'nem' includes our cousins in Haiti ( cozen nou an Ayiti ), our uncles in Cartagena ( nuestros tíos ), our aunts in Cuba ( nuestras tías ), and a wealth of other friends and relations in Panama. By depicting these connections so beautifully in pictures and words, Richard Sexton has made the Creole world at once larger, smaller, and better. --Lolis Eric Elie, writer for HBO's Treme and coproducer/writer of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Marked by accomplished photography, perceptive essays, and an elegant design, Creole World offers the reader insights into a textured, layered, and lush world. --J. Richard Gruber, director emeritus, Ogden Museum of Southern Art In Creole World , that old New Orleans greeting 'How's your mama an'nem' gains depth and resonance. We learn that 'an'nem' includes our cousins in Haiti ( cozen nou an Ayiti ), our uncles in Cartagena ( nuestros tíos ), our aunts in Cuba ( nuestras tías ), and a wealth of other friends and relations in Panama. By depicting these connections so beautifully in pictures and words, Richard Sexton has made the Creole world at once larger, smaller, and better. --Lolis Eric Elie, writer for HBO's Treme and coproducer/writer of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Richard Sexton is a fine-art and media photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. Born in Atlanta and raised in Colquitt, Georgia, his work has been published in Archetype, Harper's, Photographer's Forum, and View Camera magazines, as well as many others. Creole World is his thirteenth book, joining titles such as Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast (Chronicle Books 2007) and the best-selling New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence (Chronicle Books 1993). Jay D. Edwards is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Louisiana State University who specializes in culture theory, creolization, the Caribbean, and vernacular architecture. John H. Lawrence is director of museum programs, head of curatorial holdings, and curator of photography at The Historic New Orleans Collection.