PHOTOGRAPHY ANS SEPTEMBER 11TH

It is all but impossible to think of September 11th 2001 and not, at the same time, recall an image. The overwhelmingly visual cover age in the world's media pictured a spectacle of terror, from images of the collapsing towers, to injured victims and fatigued firef ighters. In the days, weeks and months that followed, this vast collection of photographs continued to circulate relentlessly. This book investigates the psychological impact of those photographs on a stunned American audience. Drawing on trauma theory, this book asks wheth...[Read more]