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Joel Meyerowitz
Twin Towers (right panel) 9-25-2001
[Images from Ground Zero, 2004]
2001, 27 September
Chromogenic color print
48 Î 60 ins
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY.
LL/41535
The ability of a photograph to record and act as a surrogate witness to a specific moment in time has been at the heart of photographic practice. When Joel Meyerowitz was standing in a crowd viewing the remains from the collapse of the Twin Towers, a police officer reminded him that it was a crime scene and no photographs were allowed. "To me," said Meyerowitz, "no photographs meant no history. I decided that my job was to make a photographic record of the
aftermath."
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