He knew what my friend and former teacher Neil Selkirk knew long before any of this happened. It was enough-too much-to witness it as I did ….”Īnd yet Brookman knew instinctively photography’s power to move immediately from the cerebral to the visceral. “Watching the Pentagon go up in flames from across the river” so seared his memory, Brookman recalled, that “I didn’t look at a lot of pictures after 9/11. Philip Brookman, curator of photography and media arts at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art, was driving to work on September 11 when the third plane plowed into the Pentagon. This view flew in the face of one theory put forward over the past 12 months that truly graphic picture coverage of a tragedy like 9/11 might best be left to the Internet, where a viewer might be warned in advance (i.e.: before accessing the photos) that the content might be distasteful. It’s the real world and we shouldn’t shield our readers from it.”) The tabloid’s editors replied with characteristic and welcome bluntness: “This isn’t high school. The picture prompted howls from some that this was not suitable for a mass-circulation newspaper. Or, on the other hand: Given the horrible nature of these crimes (as crimes they surely were) why was there not more coverage of the actual bloody carnage, to bring home how god-awful was this infamous, cowardly attack? (The New York Daily News, in a gutsy, if also graphic, display of what happened that day, ran in its late edition, and briefly on its Web site, a horribly beautiful picture of a cleanly severed hand lying in the street near the collapsed Trade Center Towers. Why did the media play up ad nauseum the horrific images of riot and death? When will we look deeply into ourselves and others to understand the causes of such malignant hatred?
Inevitably, there were critics on both sides, each with legitimate claims.
Yet in the year since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and the one that was thwarted over a lonely field in Pennsylvania, photography, both still and video, has helped us deal with this tragedy and, if not achieve a kind of closure, at least put parameters and faces to what has befallen us. How many times did we need to see the planes crashing into the Towers? Too many, in fact, or perhaps more accurately too many of the same images too often. In the year since the horror, we have seen many images. Yet what is more precious than sight, to see one’s beloved or to view the dawn? The gift of sight is precious and flawed. How many times have we been sure of our visual memory, only to see that, after all, there were four cars in the parking lot, not two? Any cop or detective will tell you that a witness’s recollection often is faulty or plain wrong. We are, it turns out, generally poor eyewitnesses. The legislation also requires those who employ those classified as "first responder in communications" to require particular training.Of the senses, it is the one that most often betrays us-yet most often, too, the one that gives us hope. The third law defines the term "first responder in communications" and recognizes 911 operators and dispatchers as first responders, according to Hochul's office. Previously, a written statement was required. The second piece of legislation signed Saturday establishes an online submission option for filing a "WTC notice of participation" statement within the state retirement system to recieve benefits. "We will ensure they receive the support and benefits they deserve." "These laws will help not only first responders who were at the World Trade Center on that terrible day and those who cleaned the site for weeks afterward, but also the emergency dispatchers and communications personnel who keep us safe today," Hochul said in a statement Saturday. The first piece of legislation expands the definition of those who are considered first responders at the World Trade Center recovery. Gov Kathy Hochul on Saturday announced she signed three pieces of legislation into law aimed at providing 9/11 first responders with easier access to benefits. New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks with the media after visiting the 9/11 Memorial in New York on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
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