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Summary: The best possible light....
Review: "here is new york" is the best possible light that can be shed on one of the world's darkest events.
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Summary: Here is New York...
Review: ...is the best photographic elegy to that terrible day in September 2001. Whereas many of the other books commemorating the events of 9/11 pile on premature analyses, pretentiously written accounts, and near-offensive slick design, this massive elegy lets the photos tell the small moments of shock and grief.
Yes, there is a single shocking & revolting photograph--but the editors, I'm sure, only included it in the hopes that our reaction to this photo should bring home the deep tragedy and horror of those New Yorkers present on the scene, and to which the hours of TV replays of the event may have numbed the rest of us.
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Summary: Captions would only detract from the emotion of the photos.
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As someone who worked in the NYC financial district, my memories of September 11 are largely from ground level; this book's photos capture that ground level perspective, as well as the human loss we all experienced in the coming days by hearing all the stories of the missing and the distress of the families and friends who lost loved ones. All the efforts at finding the right words have sounded flat to me, and I'm glad this volume is largely without words.This is a very human and respectful book. Some have balked at a graphic photo of a severed leg, understandably, but I'm not sure that that image is any more raw than the sense of loss you feel when seeing page after page of people hanging on to shreds of hope, forcing back the dawning reality that their loved ones are gone. This is a tremendous effort, solemnly packaged, and simply unrelenting.
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Summary: Uresh Sheth
Review: A picture says a thousand words. This book is eye opening. The photos tell a whole story or a shocking day. The photos are incredible and hard to look at, particularly one of a severed woman's leg. These are the pictures that we didn't see on the network news broadcast but will stir the passion that many people have about September 11th.
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Summary: An interesting assortment...
Review: All of these photos try to capture a moment in history that most people are probably still trying to digest, myself included. This is a comprehensive look at that day, although I have to admit there are some graphic photos that I could probably have lived without ever seeing. I will keep this book to show my children and my grandchildren so that they will know what I saw that day.
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Summary: Mandatory
Review: Although there are a number of excellent 9/11 photo essays on the market, this is the one you MUST have. With contributions from professional photographers and from ordinary people with disposable cameras, this is best photographic record of that day that I have seen. Although I was nowhere near New York, I get more of a feel for what 9/11 must have been like here than in any other 9/11 book out there. Be warned that there is genuine horror in these pages. But I cannot conceive of a record of that day done any better than this.
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Summary: The Next Best Thing to Visiting the Storefront
Review: Exhausted after wandering through lower Manhattan looking for friends lost, I came upon the Here Is New York storefront. No sign announced this storefront -- only a line of dazed people drifting inside, many clutching photos to be pinned to the clotheslines strung overhead. Nothing relates the stunning horror of that time, except these candid and brutal snapshots taken by regular people on that most irregular day. These photos convey the horrors for which there are no words. I can't look at this book without smelling the smoke all over again.
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Summary: A difficult but important book
Review: HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS is based on a museum collection of photographs taken by anyone who had access to "ground zero" during that tragic day, as well as the following days. At first, it almost seems a little morose to be interested in looking at a book of such pictures. But the truth of the matter is that it helps us to "integrate" the whole traumatic experience. As the tragic events unfolded that day back in 2001, none of us knew "what was next." Now that we know how it unfolded, what came "next," it is helpful to retrace the steps. It helps to create a continuum. On another level, it is not an easy book to look at because it was not an easy day to live through. September 11th, 2001, was probably the most difficult day any of us will experience in our entire lives. The most difficult images are those that concern graphic depiction of dead bodies and people jumping to escape the horror inside the towers. Such images are rare, however. Most of the photographs concern the collision of the planes with the buildings, the chaos that ensued on the streets below, as well as the clean up efforts of the following days. Not an easy book to read by any stretch, but it is an important book.
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Summary: A difficult but important book
Review: HERE IS NEW YORK: A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS is based on a museum collection of photographs taken by anyone who had access to "ground zero" during that tragic day, as well as the following days. At first, it almost seems a little morose to be interested in looking at a book of such pictures. But the truth of the matter is that it helps us to "integrate" the whole traumatic experience. As the tragic events unfolded that day back in 2001, none of us knew "what was next." Now that we know how it unfolded, what came "next," it is helpful to retrace the steps. It helps to create a continuum. On another level, it is not an easy book to look at because it was not an easy day to live through. September 11th, 2001, was probably the most difficult day any of us will experience in our entire lives. The most difficult images are those that concern graphic depiction of dead bodies and people jumping to escape the horror inside the towers. Such images are rare, however. Most of the photographs concern the collision of the planes with the buildings, the chaos that ensued on the streets below, as well as the clean up efforts of the following days. Not an easy book to read by any stretch, but it is an important book.
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Summary: A contributing photographers view...
Review: I admit... I am completely biased in my opinion, but I regard this book and exhibit as the MOST comprehensive view of this event any where. I was there. I saw it.
No matter who you are, after seeing the images in this book, you will come away with a real sense of what the average person experienced on that day.
The most shocking thing about this book is the number of photos. But... start reading the names of the contributing photographers... this book could have been thousands of pages long...
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