The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer's Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292749082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Created for a wide readership, and richly illustrated, The Landscapes of 9/11 explores the role of visual expression in contemporary acts of memorialization.. He is joined by a diverse group of scholars and museum professionals, including editors Edward Linenthal and Christiane Gruber, who use the Hyman collection to investigate the cultural functions of memorial practices in the United States and beyond, including Northern Ireland, the Palestinian West Bank, and Iran. The volume’s contributors explore a variety of topics, including the “documentary impulse” in American photography; the value of Hyman’s collection as cornerstone material for the shapers of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City; and the tensions between official national narratives of heroism and martyrdom, and vernacular expressions of hope, grief, patriotism, and revenge. In the emotional aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, people from all walks of life created and encountered memorials to those who were murdered. Vernacular art appeared almost everywhere—on walls, trees, playgrounds, vehicles, houses, tombstones, and even on bodies. His collection of 20,000 photographs, along with field notes and personal interviews, constitutes a unique archive of
. Linenthal is Professor of History and Editor of the Journal of American History at Indiana University, Bloomington.Jonathan Hyman is a freelance photographer and Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture initiatives at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College. He has exhibited his 9/11 photographs at libraries and museums, including the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.Christiane Gruber is Associate Professor
"A Fresh Perspective on the Response to 9/11" according to David H. Parish. In Landscapes, Jonathan Hyman shares a deeply personal mission that began within hours of the towers coming down. His passion for recording via photography the spontaneous creation of memorials, murals, tattoos and others, by those most affected, and the stories he relays as his pursuit evolves from weeks, to months, to years, pulls you in. Over time, a simple idea becomes his defining characteristic and the reader can sense Jonathan's growing realizati. Fascinating study, just one part too overly-academic That's the part that is critical, but it is not that which bothers me, it's the overdone academic language -- readers are not ALL the professorial class!. "Never Forget" according to Sherwood Marcus. Jonathan Hyman's work and has crystalized a moment of widely and deeply felt moment in American history. A moment when individuals across the country cried out to express themselves - to communicate their pain, anger, patriotism, loyalties, gratitude. As that moment recedes into history, Hyman's work will provide THE essential document of a unique American moment. Well worth reading and beautifully, and thoughtfully presented.The Landscapes of 9/11: A P
Young, Distinguished University Professor and Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) . This is an important book." (James E. What makes the compilation most enjoyable is the personal flair in each author’s approach." (Museum Anthropology)"Having long been a fan of Jonathan Hyman’s photographs documenting the vernacular 9/11 memorials dotting the American landscape, I am very glad to see his work contextualized and reproduced so vividly in this collected volume. "Both scholarly and engaging