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Title: New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers, David Halberstam ISBN: 1-57687-130-4 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A worthy and, at times, touching document.
Comment: It's startling to read the reviews of this book on the heels of having read the reviews for "One Nation," the book put out by Time-Life. It's clear that many people hold some pre-conceived notion about Magnum and are predisposed to panning this book. Well, I know nothing about Magnum. I've heard the name but I couldn't tell you anything about the company. What I can tell you is that I live in New York and I watched this entire thing happen from my window. I now own two books about 9-11 -- One Nation and this -- and for the best accounting of what happened that day,I have to give the edge to Magnum. There are pictures in this book that are exactly what I witnessed that day. I actually prefer that they rely on photographers to tell what they witnessed instead of having upper-crust "experts" put everything into perspective. Also, contrary to what a reviewer in Seattle says, the colors depicted in the Magnum book are accurate. During the day, the sun used to reflect off of the World Trade Center buildings. On that day, it was reflecting off of impossible clouds of smoke -- black and white -- and the eery gray and washed out blue was how it looked and felt here. Also, something this book does that One Nation doesn't do, is supply several pages in the back of the book -- "Farewell to the Towers" -- featuring photos of the Towers as they were. The final picture is of a woman on the Staten Island Ferry, the WTC and New York behind her -- smelling a bouquet of flowers. I like this book. Alot.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful and touching
Comment: Of the half dozen or so photographic books dealing with September 11th, this book is particularly compelling--not just for the photographs (which, of themselves, are gripping and powerful) but also for the comments of the photographers. Along with fire- and policemen and medical personnel, the other people who ran toward the scene of this event (which--along with the assassination of JFK has become a signal date--one when everyone remembers exactly what they were doing at the time) were photographers.
Photographers are the people who use (and need) images to present their impressions of any given experience. What makes this book unique is the accompanying thoughts of those people who captured the moment-to-moment aspects during the horrific attacks on the World Trace Center and after. The images in the aftermath are otherworldly in heart-squeezing fashion: shots of burning wreckage, of inward-looking firefighters, of something as ordinary as a street vendor's cart that looks bewilderingly out of place in the forefront of a scene whose background is a wall of impenetrable black smoke.
This a deeply affecting look, close up, at what so many of us are still attempting to comprehend.
Rating: 3
Summary: THE COVER REFLECTS THE INSIDE
Comment: This book could have been much better. It looks like a hastily thrown together effort to cash in on the 911 tragedy. Why weren't there any photos of Rudy Guiliani? Wasn't he still mayor at the time? The man jumps into the fray without so much as a mask to protect himself and is not honored with even a small photo. I noticed that a shot of Bill Clinton, aka "The Zipper" was rather prominently displayed. True to form he came out only after the dust settled. Probably searching out shocked women to "comfort"...
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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: 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: September 11: A Testimony by The Staff of Reuters ISBN: 0130449741 Publisher: Reuters Books Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times by The New York Times ISBN: 0805072225 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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