Joel Meyrowitz

Joel Meyerowitz is a street,portrait and landscape photographer, whom photographs in colour. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was one of the first early photographys in the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art.

I took these images from a collection of photographs he had taken of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, "There were small knots of men everywhere on the site - waiting for heavy machinery to pass at a crossing, or hanging around next to the raking fields, or standing by a makeshift shrine - and many of them were eager to tell you what had happened to them, or what they were thinking, or how they were feeling." Joel Meyerowitz taken this collection as a project which lasted 9 months, where he attended the site daily and photographed the progression from the incident to the final day when the area was re opened.

I believe the documentation of this event has a strength due to truth of it, whereas manipulation took place in the past featuring photographers adjusting pictures to give a false perception of the event. Whereas this collection by Joel

Meyerowitz is a true interpretation of the event happenings and the clean up operation following this disaster.

To conclude i believe for myself it would be difficult to recreate an image of this style due to current health and safety regulations, and i believe you would not be able to get so 'up close and personal' with the scene and the on site team of fire fighters, doctors, police officers and construction workers as Joel Meyerowitz was able to, a photographer now would have to photograph from a far, i believe.