![]() It looked like the kind of apocalyptic ruin that would have happened over decades or centuries but it had happened in a single morning. ![]() There was a picture of an escalator covered with papers and debris. I was looking through the loupe and the pictures he had made were truly haunting. "On one of the days following the attack on the World Trade Center-I think it was the 13th-I walked uptown from my home in the West Village to Magnum's offices on 25th street to look at Steve McCurry's work, which I viewed on a light table. Kira Pollack, Director of Photography of TIME įormer Associate Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine Jim's work comforted me and helped many Americans to process the hideous aftermath of those horrendous days. I was working 80-hour weeks to do my job as a journalist. It took months for me to grieve as a human being. I was honored to have been the picture editor of that edition and to be the first person in the world to have seen Jim's haunting work. James Kelly, the finest news magazine editor in America, chose to run many of Jim's pictures in the 9/11 black-bordered issue of TIME Magazine that memorialized that tragic event. ![]() Then editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine and his deputy, John Huey, came by to see where the great photographer had walked. The following morning, the imprint of his body on the chair and his dusty footprints were still there. While his film was being processed, he drank a large bottle of water, and slumped exhausted in a dark green chair in the Time photo department hallway. Later on that evening, Jim, completely covered in ash from the fallen World Trade Center towers, arrived in person at the Time and Life building in midtown Manhattan to deliver his exposed film to his waiting editors. "James Nachtwey's photograph here of one tiny New York City fireman making his way through the inferno that was once the World Trade Center towers is forever seared into my memory from the darkest day in American history. MaryAnne Golon, photo editor and media consultant former Director of Photography of TIME
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |