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Title: Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs by Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, Charles Traub, Scalo Publishers ISBN: 3-908247-66-7 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.66 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Obligatory For All . . .
Comment: There are now many books about the attacks on 9/11, many of them commemorative photo books, but if you are thinking about which one or two ought to be in your library, HERE IS NEW YORK is one you must have. The experience of seeing this storefront exhibition (which the book represents) was endlessly fascinating and moving. Thousands of photos were solicited by both amateur and professional photographers, and all were tacked up in seemingly random order all over the walls of a small shop. These charted the World Trade Center from its glory as a New York City landmark through the aftermath of the attacks. Virtually every photo was evocative, many were beautiful, and when taken together they created a staggering portrait of that day and those that immediately followed. Many experiences and points of view are represented. To enter this exhibit was an amazing experience, and when it was housed in a storefront on Sixth Avenue off Bryant Park in Manhattan, I found myself drawn there again and again. This book can't exactly recreate that experience, but it does come close to recreating the slide show that appeared on plasma screens in the exhibit, which invariably transfixed dozens of visitors at a time. To characterize the experience of thumbing through this book (even in the hurly burly of a bookstore) as riveting, moving, human is not really enough. It struck this New Yorker as an important and definitive document and one well worth having.
Rating: 5
Summary: well-balanced photographic memorial is pure art
Comment: I had read a lot of exciting reviews about this photography collection in recent articles from the New York City media. Though I was unfortunately not able to see it in person at MOMA, nor have I yet to pay my respects at Ground Zero even, this companion book is as close as one can get to the real exhibit.
"A Democracy of Photographs" is the perfect subtitle for describing the even-handed and straightforward ethos of this masterful collection. The photographs contained herein do not sensationalize, do not manufacture, or do not distort the event--they just present the facts of the tragedy and its aftermath with breathtaking camera work. I have rarely seen a lens capture the feeling of the people with such acumen ever before, save for the famous historical photographs of the National Geographic Society. This book represents more than photojournalism; it represents true art. Keep this book on the coffee table for years to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: No textbook will ever be as valuable in recounting 9/11.
Comment: I first heard about this book on CNN, a few months after 9/11. I would stop at the book in the bookstore, and flip through. I could never get through more than 10 pages because it was too emotional. I finally bought the book, over two years later, and after a personal tragedy of my own, made myself get through it. The book is composed of so many photographs that are only a split-second in time, I found myself wondering what happened of so many of the subjects -- the man who picked up and read a random piece of paper out of thousands that had been blown out of the building, the woman on page 281 who reminded me all too much of the little girl running away from her napalm-bombed village in Vietnam in the famous photograph. I was not in New York on September 11. I was bartending, in a bar in Atlanta, where every television was on the news, and the packed restaurant sat silent. Though I still can't imagine what it was like after viewing this book, I have realized that September 11 was so many different experiences to so many people. Snapshots of many of those, even one similar to mine, are portrayed, and reinforces the magnitude and impact the events had on so many.
To get on my soapbox for a while, the "severed leg" picture -- not only was this picture justified in being included, as well as the pictures of persons jumping from the buildings, it was absolutely necessary in conveying the events to future generations. When we think of the holocaust, 6 million people is a difficult concept to grasp. But when we see pictures of mass graves, people in the ghettos, etc., we realize the value of each individual person, and how each of them didn't deserve their fate. Similar is my sentiment toward the more gruesome photographs. Their inclusion was absolutely necessary to convey the death of each individual person -- the pain they left behind, the family that will miss them, and how each person didn't simply disappear into a 8x11 flyer with their smiling picture in it.
One of the most powerful things in the book is the quote from which the title "Here is New York" was taken -- a segment written 50 years ago by E.B. White, ironically the author of "Charlotte's Web," the story so many of us read as children. It expresses his fear of how New York, in all of its glory and modernization, was incredibly vulnerable. The passage is incredibly prophetic.
When I have children, and they ask about these events, as I did when I became curious as to where my parents were when JFK was assassinated, I will show them this book.
If you can handle the impact of this book, I highly reccommend it. It will make you appreciate your loved ones more, it will make you remember what so many went through.
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Title: Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001 by Photographers of the New York City Police Department, Christopher Sweet, David Fitzpatrick, Gregory Semendinger ISBN: 0670031712 Publisher: Studio Books Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition ASIN: B00006B1HI Publisher: Paramount Home Video Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.56 |
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Title:In Memoriam - New York City, 9/11/01 ASIN: B00006BS70 Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title: The September 11 Photo Project by Michael Feldschuh ISBN: 0060508663 Publisher: ReganBooks Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001-In Words, Pictures, and Video by Cbs News ISBN: 0743241908 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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