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<p>In late summer 2001 Joel Meyerowitz was preparing an exhibition in Provincetown, Massachusetts, that featured his photographs of lower Manhattan taken from the window of his studio on 19th Street. Five days after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Meyerowitz returned to the city, determined to make a historical record of the tragedy. Securing the cooperation of firefighters, police officers, and construction workers at Ground Zero, he became the only photographer with unimpeded access, and spent nine months documenting the wreckage and recovery efforts.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2001
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joel Meyerowitz
Artist

Photography
Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City.
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- Joel Meyerowitz
- Year
- 2001
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-2001-144463
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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