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Title: September 11: A Testimony by The Staff of Reuters ISBN: 0-13-044974-1 Publisher: Reuters Books Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding tribute and documentation of history
Comment: What a outstanding tribute to those who lost their lives, their families and friends, and those who responded to the tragedy. The days of September 11 profoundly affected me and I felt it extremely important that there be some way to document the events that took place that day. I have purchased several books on the tragedy, not to be morbid or to embrace death and destruction, but to instead celebrate life. I want something to show my family that will make them understand what happened and how we as a nation can and should respond to the such events.
Be warned, though our memories will fade, this book will bring tears to your eyes and make you recall from what we have been going through these past several months. This is a wonderful tribute and historical documentation from the photographers of Reuters. You'll recognize a lot of the photographs in this book that appeared in the news media. And while there are some that do focus on the horrific events that played out in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C., it appears to me that the publishers meant for the whole focus to be on what our nation did as a response. As an example, there is a picture in there from Seattle, my hometown, for example, and the huge memorial ceremony that was played out there.
The book has very little prose, subtly providing captions on the opposite page.
I would say that this is the best of the books I own on the subject. This is a book that gives us a chance to reflect on who we are as human beings and ways to make things better for future generations.
The publisher presents this as a quiet, moving, but powerful tribute to those who died and those who responded to the tragedy. Thank you to Reuters photographers, and to the publisher, Prentice Hall, for documenting this so well for generations and historians to come.
Rating: 3
Summary: Minimal Words-Minimal WTC Coverage.
Comment: I bought this book ...recently, and while it has some outstanding pictures, I think too many of them are more to do with what ELSE was happening at the time of the tragedy. For me the day was about New York, and the Trade Centers brutal demise. No less important for those who were affected by the other horrible events of the day, there is also ample coverage of flight 93s crash, with a wonderful photo of brave widow Lisa Beamer whose late husband heroically saved lives on the ground with the help of other brave passengers on board. The pentagon collapse is covered here as well. ............... MY reason for this purchase was that I thought I was going to see all sorts of shots of the World Trade Centers, before, during and after the September 11th terrorist attack. For this price, I didn't get my moneys worth for what I wanted to get from this book. For 272 pages, only 32 had to do with the actual Trade centers at all, and I'm counting numerous pictures of things like smoke columns, twisted metal wreckage ect. .............. I was lucky enough to personally grow up with a view of the WTC, and watched it being built from my parents terrace in the early 1970s as a little girl. As an adult, I STILL love the view so much, I bought my own place here too. On September 11th, I came home around 8:55AM to hear the news that one WTC tower had been hit, so I went out and saw the most ghastly sight ever, of the one tower on fire, a plume of black smoke North of me over Manhattan, past my terrace, heading south over the Coney Island shorelines that I look out on, to New Jersey. Had I NOT gone inside to see what was happening on TV, I would've seen live, the second tower being hit. I rushed out to see even more horrific damage. My father saw the first tower crumble from his terrace, I stepped out of my house and missed it. After the first tower imploded, the entire skyline was obliterated by so much smoke, I would never again be able to see the second one still standing, to say goodbye forever to those incredibly vast architechtural steel wonders that I loved to look at every day. ............. The WTC will always mean alot to me. Now I step outside, and my view of the NYC skyline has been unfairly and irrevocably changed for the worse forever. Part of me always expects the WTCs to suddenly reappear as if 9/11 was just a bad dream. Not a chance. .................. It's not that this book isn't quality, it's just not ENOUGH of what I was looking for in terms of concentration on the WTCs. One more thing, did Reuters editor need to include the photo of Yasser Arafat giving blood like someone who cares? Please! That's on a par with having a teary eyed Bill Clinton who could've concentrated more on Osamas capture instead of his own extracurricular ones. Maybe then I'd still have my old New York skyline view instead of the oddly flat unimpressive one I sadly see now. If you ARE still interested, also be aware that you're NOT getting 272 pages of photos, there is a picture on the right page, and a few words with alot of blank white paper on the left every time you turn the page. This book could've easily been captioned below or above each picture with so few words, and been half as big a volume. Again, less for more in my estimation. ............... If you'd like a pictoral book that runs the gamut of ALL the events of 9/11, then this book may be for you. However, if you loved the Trade Centers and want a memory of those to reflect upon, look elsewhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: Memorable book
Comment: The staff of Reuters did an excellent job. Still very interesting book, even or maybe because time that just passed. If you are a serious researcher or the buff of excellent photojourmalism try also these volumes: ENDURE-RENWAL FROM GROUN ZERO, a fascinating, quite excellent and disturbingly "quiet" photobook about 9/11, and the SEPTEMBER 11 BY MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHERS, memorable and strong effort by the Magnum photographers.
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Title: One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Editors of Life Magazine, editors of LIFE magazine ISBN: 0316525405 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 06 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers, David Halberstam ISBN: 1576871304 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The September 11 Photo Project by Michael Feldschuh ISBN: 0060508663 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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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: Viking Press Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath by Mitchel Levitas, Nancy Lee, Lonnie Schlein, Dan Barry, New York Times, Howell Raines ISBN: 0935112766 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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