9/11 Photos

[robertdfeinman]

Each year I go to the World Trade Center site and take pictures of the area. This year was hampered by rain, so everything looked dull.

Anyway, I've added the latest batch to my series. If you are interested here's the link:
http://robertdfeinman.com/nyc_stroll/index.html

(I used my Bessa - so the pictures are "legal".)

Call them glorified snapshots. As usual the number of people shooting film declines each year. I only noticed two, both shooting 6x7.

 

[Bob Michaels]

my photos from 9/11/06

my photos from 9/11/06

http://bobmichaels.org/intro_9112006.htm

 

[Tuolumne]

I have quite a few. Here are two from 9/11/2007.

/T

 

[Charles Bogel]

From when I stepped out of my apartment on 9/11.





In my personal opinion I'm not so thrilled seeing maudlin photos taken post 9/11 by gawking out-of-towners. (Comment removed by Kim. Please see my post above)

 

[Charles Bogel]

Double exposure of the WTC site taken a few days ago with a Hasselblad 500/C with 80mm Planar out of my window. I'm disgusted at the slow pace of reconstruction. Ideally, I would like the original Twin Towers built back, 10 stories higher, stronger, and with the most sophisticated long-range retalitory weapons array ever created on the roof.

I would like to tar and feather every tourist asking "where's ground zero?", and double that for every one wearing a newly purchased "ground zero" baseball cap or t-shirt, or clutching a gory "ground zero" tourist magazine sold in the street.

Maybe you can tell I can't stand them.

 

[Kim Coxon]

Please keep the discussion on photography and leave the political views out of it. Please remember the guidelines. 😉

Kim

 

[Charles Bogel]

Non-double exposure. Hasselblad 500/c, Planar, Portra film:

 

[mich8261]

I'll bring it back on topic (sort of). Charles, those are ... hmmm ... how do you compliment someone for pictures of something so sobering - those are wonderful pictures.

On a lighter note, looks like you made sure the window was really clean before taking that double exposure!

I work in one of the buildings in your double exposure. When I see visitors trying to get pictures of "ground zero" through the chain link fence or between the metal bars on the pedestrian overpass, I often suggest they go to the mezzanine of the Winter Garden (at the World Financial Center). I find that from there you get a better sense of the immensity of it all, back to my point above, it is more sobering, less peeping. Maybe it's the glass...

 

[Charles Bogel]

 

[Charles Bogel]

Most people have no idea of the enormity of what they did to NYC on 9/11. People who were not there who watched images on TV have no conception. It didn't begin to convey the scale of this attack on innocent people from every culture and country in the world who lived and worked in New York City. It will never be the same New York again.

 

[Charles Bogel]

Here are people lining up in NYC Chinatown the next day to attempt to withdraw their money in a panic from the bank:



Here is a memorial to Chinese dead at the foot of the bust of Confucious in Chinatown, not far from the WTC site:



Please do not go to "Ground Zero" in Manhattan to take syrupy, sentimental photos of the site. We are already a nation saturated with the cult of "victimhood". We don't need to wallow in self pity taking pictures of a wrecked hole in the ground. London, Hiroshima, Berlin....all were destroyed and rebuilt. We don't need maudlin sentimentality, we need leaders who don't consider us a country full of expendable cattle beholden to corporate interests.

Having said that, and I'm sorry if the mods don't like it, I detest gawking tourist photos of "ground zero".