In memoriam

The last news on negatives

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September 11th, 2011. Ten years have gone by. The first big shock of the 21st century. Everyone remembers where they were. Everyone remembers a picture. Tens of thousands were taken that day. The entire world published them, discovered them, saved them. However September 11th was the last ...

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Didier Rapaud: 9 hours and counting

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It is 3 o’clock in the afternoon on September 11, 2001. I had just ordered an espresso and the check as we finished lunch. The closing for Match ended three hours ago.

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Jim Wilson: De Ground Zero au New York Times

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24 hours after the event the newspaper is exceptionally rich with many on the scene interviews, with analysis, drawings. Photography plays a major part on. Jim Wilson assignment editor on that day tells us about his sept 11th and of the capacity to react of the teams of th...

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Gilles Peress:
A privileged witness

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History for an international reporter is not always on the other side of the world. It can also be just around the corner. Gilles Peress one of the great concerned photographer of the XXth century photographed the unthinkable a few feet from his doorstep in New York City.

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The Portraits of Grief

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The New York Times journalists started the obituaries of the 1910 victims of the attack of World Trade Center by sorting out a pile of posters of the missing. In the book we have some pictures, the portraits of the deceased, and mostly heartfelt texts to their memories.

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David Friend: Watching the World Change

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David Friend wrote Watching the world in 2006, 5 years after the attacks on WTC. It is reprinted this year. He had wanted the time to have a global view, to analyze with surgical precision the images of 9/11 a recommended read, it makes one think.

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Here is New York

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Here is New York with a thousand pictures succeed more than most. Two buildings on fire are spewing thick smoke, in a final gesture of despair a man jumps, down below people are horrified they look haggard helpless, cover their mouth to hold a cry, their face in disbelief. The pictures are n...

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Bill Biggart: Until the final image

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Bill Biggart was the only journalist casualty in the 9/11 tragedy of the collapse of the World Trade Center. He became a photographer very early in life. On that day he was carrying three cameras one of them digital, he had just bought. Unknowingly he covered the l...

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ICP: Remembering 9/11

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Ten years after, on this occasion ICP in New York present an exhibition that commemorates the day mixing photography and video. The museum chose exclusively to show the impact of the event on the town and on the population .No sensational pictures, this homage to the New Yorkers will not bring ...

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