Peter Turnley:

At 6:30 a.m. on September 12th, 2001, in the rubble of Ground Zero, I saw a fireman sitting alone, looking into the distance with an unfocused gaze. This was a look I had seen before in war zones around the world, when someone’s life compass has been shaken so profoundly that all sense of direction has become confused. They call it the thousand-yard stare. As I made several photographs of this man he looked right through me, oblivious to my presence.

Eine wunderbare, bewegende Geschichte. Ein Foto kann so viel wert sein, so viel ausdrücken, so viel erzählen, so viel bedeuten.

Jay Maisel:

Two weeks after 9/11, still numb, depressed, and disconnected (as we all were), I had to go to ground zero. I took my camera but I had no idea what I was going to see, do or photograph. I just had to be there; to bear witness to what had happened and was happening.

Jay Maisel hat ein Fotobuch als Gedenken an 9/11 zusammen gestellt. Das ist ein Auszug aus dem Vorwort. Gibt auch einige Bilder zu sehen. Tolle Bilder, die nie das eigentliche Geschehen zeigen, sondern immer nur den direkten Blick auf die Menschen. Erst am Ende zeigt Maisel ein Foto des Objekts auf das alle schauen. Sehr gut!

Mag mir jemand das Buch schenken?