Not Watching The World Change

[robotnik2004]

You've probably seen all the 9-11 images you need to today. This is one of the few I hadn't seen before. (It was mentioed in a Frank Rich column in this Sunday's NYT - the column is behind the Times' pay-subscriber wall, but I find the picture more interesting than the image anyway. I just wish it was a higher resolution.) The photo is not at all graphic, yet the photographer was so disturbed by the image that he chose not to publish it for four years after the attacks. Can you see why?



Maybe I'll come back and write something about this, maybe not. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves.

Comments

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

I also do not see what the big deal is. I mean, photography can lie just as well as any other visual medium. As far as we know he managed to catch this scene in the precise moment that each person looked relaxed. That is not to say that they were all just lounging around talking about last night's episode of Friends. Hell, the way I look at it is they were all staring at the scene in the distance, and the guy on the far right in the dark shirt said something, and they all turned and looked at him.