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Carolyn Schaefer: World Trade Center and Washington Square Arch, New York, 1998

On Monday, April 30, 2012, at approximately 2:00 p.m., the Port Authority will mark a major milestone in the construction of One World Trade Center with the installation of steel columns that will make the skyscraper the tallest building in New York. When the columns are put in place, the building will officially surpass the height of the Empire State Building, which currently is the tallest structure in New York.


An inside look of construction on the 91st Floor of One WTC

"Cowboys of the sky.” The New York Times Magazine featured a series of images by Damon Winter, who spent five days in July, 2011 with the ironworkers who are rebuilding the Manhattan skyline atop 1 World Trade Center

Ron Antonelli for the New York Daily News

9.11.01 - 9.11.11

Carolyn Schaefer: World Trade Center and Washington Square Arch, New York, 1998



Earlier this week, The New York Times ran an article titled  "Media Strive to Cover 9/11 Without Seeming to Exploit a Tragedy".  "There’s no precedent for something like this,” said Lawrence C. Burstein, the publisher of New York magazine. There has been debate about how the anniversary should be covered. Should it be left to great thinkers and elegant writers to define what the attacks have meant for the country? Or are Americans better served by the accounts of those who experienced the attacks first-hand?"

We relocated from New York City to Santa Fe in January, 2002. Our list of recommended posts (so far):

CNN: Witness to history: White House photographer Eric Draper and the images of 9/11

New York Times Interactive: The Reckoning: America and The World A Decade After 9/11

Wall Street Journal: A Decade After 9/11


New York Daily News: 9/11 Ten Years Later

La Lettre de la Photographie: Archives 9/11

BBC: 9/11 Ten Tears On

VII Photo Agency: 9/11Remembered

POP Photo: 9/11: The Photographers' Stories, Part 1—"Get Down Here. Now."
  
The New Yorker Photo Booth: Ten Years Later

Shutter Photo: 10 Years After 9/11: The Importance of Photojournalism

The Atlantic: September 11: A Story About the History of Digital Photography

Time LightBox: Stephane Sednaoui: 9/11 Search and Rescue

Time Light Box: Twin Towers and the Metropolis: 1970-2011

Time Light Box: Revisiting 9/11: Unpublished Photos by James Nachtwey

Time Light Box:  Flight 93 and Shanksville, Pa: The Forgotten Part of 9/11

Time Light Box: Photo Editors On 9/11: The Photographs That Moved Them Most

David Schonauer: Icons, The 9/11 Series Part One
                              Part Two
                              Part Three
                              Part Four

The Washington Times: Special Section: Sept. 11


The Telegraph: The 9/11 Picture I'll Never Forget (But Wish I Could)

The Guardian: The 9/11 Decade

CBS New York: Remembering 9/11/01 Ten Years Later
(including archive of live newsradio broadcasts)

Photographers revisit 9/11: 'It was that horrific'

Magnum: Susan Meiselas: Ground Zero Artifacts and Construction

Joe McNally: "Like many New York based shooters, I had a bit of a love fest with the World Trade Centers"

Richard Falco: September 11 - To Bear Witness

International Center of Photography: Remembering 9/11
(Including a full list of 9/11 exhibitions and events in New York with locations)

Related: The Newseum has 147 newspaper front pages from 19 countries published on September 12, 2001