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The attack on the World Trade Center was the most watched event in human history. And the footage recorded that day came from myriad perspectives--from TV cameras and tourist snapshots to photographer Thomas E. Franklin's 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.

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<p> A lucid, thoughtful, and wide-ranging book...David Friend's excellent writing conveys more of the truth of the day than photographs can. --Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book Review As I read Watching The World Change, my pulse began to quicken. This is an intricately woven tale of that terrible day, and terrible week, that is both gripping and thought-provoking. The images, of course, are seared in our consciousness, but after reading this book you will look at them in a whole new way. Much has been written about 9/11, but David Friend shows it to us as no one has before. --Anderson Cooper<p> Compelling...Surely the most original treatment so far of the cultural impact of the day. --Frank Rich, The New York Times The crystalline images of September 11 soon became blurred, either by hysteria or exploitation or by a certain reticence that mutated into near-denial. At last we have a book that looks steadily through the lens and does not flinch, but which cancels voyeur

As I read Watching The World Change, my pulse began to quicken. This is an intricately woven tale of that terrible day, and terrible week, that is both gripping and thought-provoking. The images, of course, are seared in our consciousness, but after reading this book you will look at them in a whole new way. Much has been written about 9/11, but David Friend shows it to us as no one has before. &#8212;Anderson Cooper <br> The crystalline images of September 11 soon became blurred, either by hysteria or exploitation or by a certain reticence that mutated into near-denial. At last we have a book that looks steadily through the lens and does not flinch, but which cancels voyeurism by its care and measure and by the multiplicity of its perspectives. &#8212;Christopher Hitchens <br> To read&#160; Watching the World Change &#160;is an overwhelming experience. Beautifully written and observed, as a tribute to the dead, it embodies the Buddhist wisdom about change, life, and the world mor

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David Friend, Vanity Fair 's editor of creative development, was the directory of photography for Life magazine. He won an Emmy (with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter) for the documentary 9/11, about two French documentary makers drawn into the disaster. He lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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