This large landscape-format book, exquisitely designed and produced, features the remarkable photography created by Spanish artist Francesc Torres, who was granted special access to visit JFK International Airport's Hangar 17 after it became the repository for all significant non-human materials salvaged from the site of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. With his lifelong interest in questions of human memory and meaning, Torres creates photographs that turn twisted steel or smashed ambulances into objects of contemplation and wonder. Accompanying his chilling photography are several pieces of writing that address the question of what place the memory of 9/11 will take in the history of the United States and the world. Newsweek senior editor Jerry Adler writes the primary text of the book, explaining how the remains of Ground Zero came to be carried to Hangar 17 and what happened to them there. Torres himself, at home in lower Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001, writes a memory piece on that day and his feelings in the presence of the twisted remains months later. Yale historian David Blight offers a piece on how 9/11 will reshape American history. The book also includes a statement by the curator of the forthcoming 9/11 Museum at the World Trade Center, where some of these pieces will be displayed.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426208331
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/08/2011
Año de edición: 2011
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Francesc Torres
Francesc Torres, artista catalano-nord-americà, nascut a Barcelona l'any 1948.Va començar la seva carrera el 1967 i encara no se n'ha cansat. Pioner del videoart, ha treballat en el camp de l'art conceptual, la fotografia i la instal·lació multimèdia, també en l'espai públic i en les arts escèniques. Les seves obres són presents en col·leccions d'arreu del món i ha exposat, entre d'altres, al Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), al MoMA (NY), a l'International Center of Photography (NY), al Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), al Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), a la Nationalgalerie (Berlín), al Rudolfinum (Praga), al Museu Rus (Sant Petersburg), al Reina Sofía (Madrid), al Guggenheim (Bilbao), a la Fundació Joan Miró, al MACBA i al MNAC (Barcelona). Ha viscut a París, Chicago, Nova York, San Francisco i Berlín, i ha rebut nombrosos premis nacionals i internacionals. La reflexió crítica i la memòria històrica són alguns dels seus temes centrals. Per complicar més les coses, també escriu.