WATCH | Richard Drew tells the story behind his famous 9/11 photograph, The Falling Man Junod writes: "Some people who look at the pictures see stoicism, willpower, a portrait of resignation others see something else - something discordant and therefore terrible: freedom." Drew was 21 years old at the time.ĭrew's photograph of the man falling to his death from the North Tower appeared in publications all over the world. The picture was taken by Associated Press photo-journalist Richard Drew, who also famously captured a picture of Bobby Kennedy's "open and ebbing" eyes just after he was shot in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It remains one of the best articles I've read on the subject, focussing as it does on a single horrific moment caught in a frame as a kind of stand-in for the whole, a "visual synecdoche" for the event, if you will, jarring in its intimacy, but even more so in its geometry, symmetry and absurdity. This is the opening paragraph of an article by Tom Junod that was published in 2003, and republished on Tuesday on various platforms to mark 17 years since the Septemattacks in New York and on the Pentagon. His black high-tops are still on his feet." His white shirt, or jacket, or frock, is billowing free of his black pants. His left leg is bent at the knee, almost casually. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered. He does not appear intimidated by gravity's divine suction or by what awaits him. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. "He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. "In the picture, he departs from the earth like an arrow.
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