“To find myself inside this catastrophe with two gigantic buildings that fell, the chaos of it. It was more vast and monumental than any of the great ruins of history.” - joelmeyerowitz
It has been two decades since 9/11, 20 years since two planes flew into the World Trade Center, killing thousands and changing New York City forever. One of the small blessings of that horrific tragedy is that the eminent street photographer Joel Meyerowitz, who over the course of his sex-decade career has shot some of the most stunning portraits and cityscapes, took it upon himself to record the aftermath.
MEYEROWITZ: Yeah. The medium pretends to be one-dimensional—it’s just a camera with film or a chip, and it makes images. But we’re so complex, and the medium asks a lot of questions of us. I’m entering one of those phases now at 83 years old. I live in Italy and something has happened in the last five or six months. Some new questions have come up.
MCGINLEY: That’s the spirit of a New Yorker, right? In classic New York style, good things come to those who hustle. MCGINLEY: Wasn’t one of the photographers you had tried to bring in Mary Ellen Mark? I thought that was genius. MCGINLEY: I imagine you were working through a lot of raw grief. How did you navigate your emotions down there?
MEYEROWITZ: Yeah, I’m in the program at Mount Sinai. And even though I wore a respirator and a hard hat, after nine months I started to have a respiratory thing. There’s no doubt that my breathing is compromised. There are guys far worse. Most of those 12 guys in the bomb squad have had serious problems. Some have died already. So I’m fortunate in comparison to them, but I’ve paid a price for it.
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