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World Trade Center Archive
Phaidon Press
September 2006
On Sale: August 25, 2006
350 pages
ISBN: 0714846554
EAN: 9780714846552
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
After September 11th, 2001, the Ground Zero site in New York
City was classified as a crime scene and only those directly
involved in the recovery efforts were allowed inside. The
press was also prohibited from the site, but with the help
of the Museum of the City of New York and sympathetic city
officials, award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz
managed to obtain unlimited access. By ingenuity and sheer
determination, he was the only photographer granted
unimpeded right of entry into Ground Zero. For 9 months, during the day and night, Meyerowitz
photographed "the pile," as the World Trade Center came to
be known, and the over 800 people a day that were working in
it. Influenced by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange's work for
the Farm Security Administration during the Great
Depression, he knew that if he didn't make a photographic
record of the unprecedented recovery efforts, "there would
be no history."
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