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An important tribute to the courage and determination exhibited by New Yorkers in the weeks and months following 9/11. -Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City Aftermath is a testament to the heroism and compassion that were so much a part of the recovery efforts at ground zero. -Joe Daniels, President, National September 11 Memorial & Museum Meyerowitz has created an archive that is both a work of history and of art. -Booklist Magnificent... It is for our children and our grandchildren-for the historical record-that Meyerowitz zealously labored over many months to capture on film the aftermath. -John Updike, The New York Review of Books Mesmerizing. -The New York Times

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'stunning' Arena, August, 2006 'as a historical record and a tribute, it's a huge achievement' Evening Standard, 31 July 2006 'The physical and emotional weight of Meyerowitz's World Trade Center archive is intimidating to say the least. - Throughout Meyerowitz's encounters and musings, and symbolic of the fragility of stereotypes, is the burden of sorrow that the construction workers endured each day, often bringing these rough, tattooed men to tears. As one lone man, raking through the dirt eloquently put it in the last day before the site was finished 'We are gardeners on the garden of the dead.' - [Meyerowitz's] detailed yet sometimes poetic descriptions of the slow and arduous task ahead are scattered throughout the pages like those jotted down in a personal journal. - What is refreshing about Meyerowitz's approach is the complete absence of the political how and why. Aftermath does not pretend to be anything other than it is, an archive to an historical event.' foto 8 magazine, September 2006 'Epic images of Ground Zero [that] remind us anew of the enormity of that day...panoramas that fold out convey the 'awful beauty' of the scene ...the best photographs, however, are on a smaller scale, resorting a sense of detail and reaffirming the importance of the individual existences that were first pulped in the pile..' Peter Conrad, The Observer, August 2006 'Meyerowitz's work never feels voyeuristic - it is, at once, a surreal and moving document, evoking the sheer scale of the attacks, and capturing their horrific result.' Creative Review, September 2006

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Born in 1938 in New York City, Meyerowitz went to Ohio to study painting and medical drawing at the State University but moved back to New York to work in advertising as an art director-designer. He began to take photographs at this time and left his job to concentrate on photography as a career. Shooting film in black and white, he travelled around the United States for three months after which he was offered a Guggenheim Scholarship to take pictures on the theme of 'leisure time'. However Meyerowitz has had his greatest influence as an early advocate of colour photography. He was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of colour from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. His subject matter altered from incidents on city streets shot with a small 35mm camera to the large format field photograph. He has been awarded the title Photographer of the Year by the Friends of Photography, San Francisco. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has been exhibited and published worldwide.

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