Posted on 05/14/2002 11:24:15 PM PDT by American Preservative
Morgan Stanley & TIME Magazine present
Faces of Ground Zero
World Tour of Life-sized Portraits
May 14 (Tuesday) - June 7 (Friday)
location:
One Market Street
(Near the Embarcadero)
San Francisco, CA
time:
Monday - Friday » 7 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday » 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday » Closed
admission:
Open to the Public (Free)
for more info:
Visit their site at www.morganstanley.com
58 life-sized photographs of emergency workers, survivors and relatives of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, will open to the public at One Market Street. The photographs were taken with the world's largest Polaroid camera and can be viewed from May 14 to June 7, 2002.
The San Francisco exhibition and the world tour are presented by TIME Magazine and sponsored by Morgan Stanley, which was the largest tenant of the World Trade Center, with 3,700 people employed there.
"On September 11, Morgan Stanley employees at the World Trade Center relied on uniformed officers and rescue workers to get them to safety," said Robert G. Scott, president of Morgan Stanley. "We are indebted to them all. This exhibit, which pays tribute to these heroes, is one way of saying thank you."
San Francisco is the fourth city to host the exhibit, which will travel to Los Angeles' Skirball Cultural Center in June. The exhibit opened in January at New York City's Grand Central Terminal. The photographs have traveled to Boston, London and Chicago, and will return to New York City on the anniversary of September 11.
All of the portraits, some of which include two or three subjects, include text on each individual's story. The exhibit has already attracted worldwide attention including a front-page photo in The New York Times. WashingtonPost.com columnist Frank Van Riper wrote, "Looking at these gorgeous portraits, one cannot help but be moved by the intensity and depth of feeling that McNally and his team captured." The London-based Independent wrote, "There are many reasons why you have to engage with the subjects of the different portraits -- you cannot avoid the look in their eyes. Nor can you ignore their stories." Kimberly Strassel of The Wall Street Journal online edition observed, "Maybe it was the sheer size of the photos, or maybe it was the fact that each of the people looked so confident and determined, but you suddenly felt you were looking at a visual version of that elusive thing people call 'the American spirit.' "
Renowned LIFE photographer Joe McNally shot the nine-foot by four-foot framed images with a one-of-a-kind Polaroid camera measuring 12-foot by 16-foot by 12-foot, or about the size of a one-car garage. It was built in the 1970s by Polaroid designers after founder Dr. Edwin Land challenged them to make the biggest Polaroid camera possible.
McNally culled the 58 color photographs on display from nearly 200 images captured in the days following the World Trade Center attacks. The camera, now housed in the Moby C studio in lower Manhattan, yields 40-inch by 80-inch photos of striking immediacy and clarity. The lens, taken from a U-2 spy plane, produces full-size images on massive sheets of Polaroid film in less than a minute and a half.
"I shot this exhibit through a lot of tears," said McNally. "I've heard countless stories of heroism, loss and recovery. There hasn't been a single bitter or angry word. The mood in the studio has been one of acceptance and healing. Anger has been absent."
Within a week of the Sept. 11 attacks, McNally approached Richard Stolley, senior editorial adviser at Time Inc., and John Huey, Time Inc. editorial director, with a project proposal which quickly gained the support of Time Inc., TIME magazine (which oversees the LIFE brand) and AOL Time Warner. Twenty-eight of McNally's survivor and rescue-worker portraits were included in the LIFE book "ONE NATION: America Remembers September 11, 2001" (Little, Brown and Company), currently on The New York Times best-seller list. Upon learning of the project, Morgan Stanley committed its support and signed on to sponsor the public exhibition of life-size photos in New York's Grand Central Terminal and other cities around the world.
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