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first horror of 9/11 was visual. Like the twin candles of man's aspiration
and achievement melting down in flames they couldn't hold. Eleven: Witnessing
the World Trade Center 1974-2001 (Contact Press Images/Universal) is a
book of pictures, or, as its editor Robert Pledge says, "a modest
paper memorial" to that terrible day in New York. This project of
remembrance in images brings together some of the finest minds in photojournalism,
punctuated by words as evocative as the pictures, including the text by
Jacques Menasche and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's elegy on the Dead
of September-"Those children of ancestors born in every continent
on the planet."
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Nightmare on Sixth Avenue
People on Sixth Avenue, Greenwich village, watch in horror as the
North Tower collapses, photographed by Tim Mapp
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Smouldering Skyline
From the Williamsburg bridge Lori Grinker captures the burning
North Tower of the World Trade Center after the collapse of the
South Tower
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Singed Vignette
Annie Leibovitz's image of the haunting void and remnants of the
trade towers at Ground Zero from the southwestern corner on September
26, 2001
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Tenuous Faith
Lori Grinker profiles an incinerated traffic light on West Street
hanging eerily over the World Trade Center tower wreckage on September
11, 2001
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"A crush of bodies, an emotional Babel,
the first suggestion of hell as Dante might have seen it."
Jacques Menasche
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"Beyond the compelling need to make
this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because
of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity,
his need for individual dignity."
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Climbing up from Ground Zero
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ISSUE SEPTEMBER 16, 2002
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