In honor of the anniversary of 9/11 I post this Joel Meyerowitz photograph, taken as part of a commission to document the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Meyerowitz is best known for his careful use of color in landscape images. He's a sky and sea guy. But this work took him out of his elements and gave the man-made destruction a needed beauty and order. Here the twisted arc of metal in the foreground echoes the delicate curves of the Winter Garden's arched roof in the...
Published on September 13, 2009 19:06