9-11
New York: 2001. Original color photograph (10 1/4” X 15”) of a totally engrossed Twin Towers observer in a pose that, though it shows she is engaged and coupled by cell phone to someone who shares her awe, it also captures the renowned nonchalance, and urban cool nature of the hardened souls living in Manhattan. Near fine. Framed, matted, and glazed. fine. Item #483
I bought this picture at a salient traveling exhibit of 9–11 photographs when it came to L. A. shortly after the event happened. And this particular exhibition was a good one, and I have been to some that were so bad that a casual observer would think they must be fronts for the Mafia. So, I walked around and looked around, with my untrained civilian eye, and just bought this picture impulsively, because I liked it, and I forgot to record the photographer’s name. I probably paid $300, and now it’s in this catalog, and I don’t think I deserve to lose any money, just because I wasn’t being entrepreneurial, fastidious, calculating or a careful recorder of pertinent facts at the moment.
9–11 (Tues. Sept. 11, 2001) was the single most deadly day of direct outside attack within the boundaries of the U. S. 2,977 people were killed (some counts vary slightly), 415 of them police and firefighters, and thousands more were injured, most of them in N. Y. City, but others in Washington D. C. and Shanksville Penn. However, 9–11 pales next to other explosive historical calamities, the foremost of which, in human times, being the Toba eruption, 75,000 years ago, that (by the most recent data) killed 98% of the people on Earth, leaving in its wake some 3,000 Adams and 3,000 Eves to repopulate the planet (the genetic bottleneck).
Price:
$300.00