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Post by Jeff on Sept 11, 2006 9:16:50 GMT -5
CNN has a rebroadcast of 911 today. We are watching some of it. www.cnn.com/You can follow the sequence of events here: www.911timeline.net/I think this rebroadcast is mostly sensationalistic; HOWEVER, one can use it for self-education. That's what we are doing this morning. |
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Post by chris on Sept 11, 2006 14:03:48 GMT -5
Sensationalistic, yeah... but it's kind of nostalgic in a weird sort of way. Part of the reason I watched is exactly because I couldn't watch on the day of -- I was stuck at work, and all we had was NBC (which, admittedly, was all over it, but it wasn't CNN). Pretty incredible stuff.
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Post by Jeff on Sept 11, 2006 18:52:26 GMT -5
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Post by Thanin on Sept 12, 2006 7:50:58 GMT -5
Best photo ever.
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Post by chris on Sept 12, 2006 15:32:57 GMT -5
Wow, talk about much ado about nothing. Three of them turned to engage in conversation while watching the disaster (it's clear that the guy in the chair was watching and turned to talk), and suddenly it's young people being indifferent. The power of the image, I guess.
Rule #1: Whenever a Magnum photographer is around, be on your best behavior.
From the comments on Slate:
"The suggestion that these people, caught in a moment when they happened to be speaking to one another rather than staring across the water -- perhaps to share comfort or horror or information, for all we know -- must therefore have been ignoring the cataclysm taking place right behind them tells us a lot more about the projected anxieties of the people who want to make this into a picture of callous detachment than it does about its subjects."
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Post by chris on Sept 12, 2006 22:01:06 GMT -5
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Post by jtmx1 on Sept 13, 2006 15:54:39 GMT -5
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Post by chris on Sept 13, 2006 19:03:30 GMT -5
"A more honest conclusion might start by acknowledging just how easily a photograph can be manipulated, especially in the advancement of one's own biases or in the service of one's own career."
Boo-yah.
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Post by Jeff on Sept 14, 2006 15:36:27 GMT -5
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