Insightful , Accurate, Excellent!

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	• Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive Joel Meyerowitz Phaidon Press, 2006 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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Insightful , Accurate, Excellent!

Joel Meyerowitz has captured the soul of the World Trade Center site, and the rescue/recovery workers passion to "leave no stone unturned". There is no way to fully describe or depict the horror of those 16 acres, but he is able to walk you through "Ground Zero" as nobody else has. He writes with the knowledge of one who has BEEN THERE. For those of us who put our lives on hold for those long, horrific months - Well Done, Joel! All I can say is - aaaah!

Humbling!

Meyerowitz decided to photograph the WTC aftermath for all those involved (victims, site workers, and volunteers), and for the future. Unfortunately, he was ignored by the Mayor's office, and his requests through other channels were similarly treated. Fortunately, with a combination of Meyerowitz's determination (repeatedly going back after being ordered out), ingenuity (obtaining a "uniform" - backwards hard hat, goggles, respirator, gloves, heavy boots; creating fake worker passes), and the assistance of some sympathetic NYPD and fire chiefs, he succeeded in recording the nine-month project.

His photos record the incredible initial jumble of jagged steel and aluminum, time-outs to respectfully remove bodies and body parts, using the largest crane in the U.S. to help (1,000 ton monster), command posts located in tents and portable buildings, surreal scenes of a large cart of "fresh" donuts, a nearly undamaged Borders bookstore, little coats, backpacks, lunchboxes and desks at a WTC daycare center, and the large Winter Park area, the severe damage to surrounding buildings, homemade photo memorials, the large radio antenna atop one of the towers, airplane wheels, the subway tracks underneath the WTC and a "ghost train," the last column - along with its removal and signage by the workers, and a number of worker photos.

Meyerowitz's accompanying verbiage also add much to the book. I especially liked the story of how the only female Operating Engineer on-site uncovered another female's body while using her giant claw machine, and forced those involved to give that (and all other civilian bodies found) the same respect and treatment being afforded firemen and policemen.

We all owe a debt of gratitude to Meyerowitz and his "Aftermath."

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The Recovery Effort of 9-11

"Aftermath" is the photgraphic evidence of the 8 month recovery and clean-up effect at Ground Zero. This oversize gift book was the creation of Mr. Meyerowitz's photographic efforts during 2001-2002 -- it is not a record of 9-11 itself. The mind-blowing bureaucratic attempts to keep the author away from the site (of course, the reasons were liability and legal, none of which kept the hundreds of recovery workers away from Ground Zero). "Aftermath" is the documentation of a massive funeral for the victims of 9-11. For further reading/viewing, the reader is referred to "Watching the World Change" (2006) by David Friend and "Here is New York" (2002) by Gillis Peress, el al.

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