ABC TV. Right now

[gstark]

7:30 report

Who's watching it?

[gstark]

It was an interview with Joel Myerowitz (or something along those lines), the Ground Zero photographer.

Provided an insight into some of the issues he faced and had to deal with in the aftermath of 9/11.

Very interesting.

[Manta]

I saw it, out of the corner of my eye while I was reading macro lens reviews here.

Amazing stuff. I loved the "No, not a bag. Get a flag!" for the bodies.

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Simon,

Yes, that was, I think, a very telling moment.

[Raskill]

Saw this for a while, was very impressed. What was the name of his book? My wife decided it was shit and changed the channel to annoy me

[gstark]

I think it's called Ground Zero, Alan.

[Raskill]

Thanks mate!

[Matt. K]

Joel Myerowitz was very hot as a fine art photographer in the 70s and early 80s. Nice to see he is still around. He was well known for his colour images of cityscapes.

[stubbsy]

I saw it by chance. It was an interesting, but very brief, report. Shame they didn't show more pics to give a feel for the book. I actually liked the comment quoted from one of the firemen raking the ground for fragments of people who described themselves as gardeners in the garden of the dead.

Here is a review of the book. And some pics from the book are here

[Reschsmooth]

There was a doco last week on SBS called "The Falling Man" relating to the two towers but in particular, one photo of a man falling from one of the towers in a surreal pose as he was falling. The doco was about the effect the image had against a backdrop of a nation who needed to see images of the heroism of the rescuers, survivors and the country as a whole, not this desparate picture of a person forced to commit a completely irrational act of jumping 1000 feet.

The doco then went on about the mission of a journo who wanted to identify the man and how he had thought he found the man's family, being Hispanic and catholic, and how they didn't want to come to grips with the prospect that their husband/father committed such a sin by killing himself, and therefore not being allowed into 'heaven'.

In the end, the man was mis-identified and they eventually believed they had correctly identified him.

One of the subtexts was the question of whether they should identify him at all (and the issues surrounding that for the family) or should his image captured on film be symbolic of the events of that day.

It was a great doco covering many issues relating to those events.

P

[MHD]

Yes, it was an excellent Doco (falling man) very interesting and telling into the American Psyche...

[gstark]

Both were most interesting pieces of TV, and I have recorded both.

[Mal]

It's only the words, no pictures but you get an idea about what was going on..

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT

LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1735664.htm

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Mal,

Thanx.