September 10, 2007

O, TANNENBAUM. On the evening of September 10, 2001, I ran into photojournalist Allan Tannenbaum at an auction to raise money for the charity Friends in Deed. The next morning Tannenbaum was off into the breach, coming away with key, enduring images of the attacks.

I urge readers to click over to the current issue of the Digital Journalist, which was posted yesterday, featuring Tannenbaum’s gripping documentation of individuals struggling with illnesses that medical experts attribute to their exposure to toxic materials in the air downtown in the weeks and months after the attacks.

GIULIANI RECONSIDERED. This weekend’s New York Times column by Gail Collins, “Giuliani’s Ground Zero Legacy,” was hard-hitting and dead-on. Quoth Collins: “The man has so identified himself with 9/11 that it’s amazing he hasn’t tried to patent it.” CLICK HERE for the full text, if you get Times Select.

TIMELY NOTICE. Speaking of the sage Times, its Book Review yesterday showcased Watching the World Change in “Paperback Row,” calling it “a lucid, wide-ranging analysis of the cultural impact of the day’s imagery, from news coverage to amateur photography” – a hybrid of responses about the book that have been previously written for the Times by Garrison Keillor and Frank Rich.

Hats off to the Formerly Gray Lady.