Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11

About this book

The attack on the World Trade Center was the most watched event in human history. And the footage recorded that day came from myriad perspectivesfrom TV cameras and tourist snapshots to photographer Thomas E. Franklins iconic image of three firefighters raising the American flag at Ground Zero. David Friend explains how that week marked a phase change in the digital age a moment when all the advances in television photography and the Web converged on a single event. A brilliant chronicle of how we process disaster Watching the World Change is "an elegant and moving examination of the photographic legacy of that day in history.Brings meaning to a terrible time" (New Orleans Times-Picayune). Includes the exclusive story of the French filmmaker brothers who chronicled the attacks and survived the collapse of the towers.