Bolivar Arellano snapped this terrifying shot of the South Tower collapsing. He told The Huffington Post, “Suddenly you could hear a loud explosion, dry like the sound of piercing metal, and then ‘trac, trac, trac.’ The tower was reducing floor by floor like a house of cards. I managed to take one picture and ran.”
This next photo was taken by professional photographer Patricia McDonough. It’s a view from her living room window in an apartment four blocks from the Twin Towers. After taking some photos, McDonough rushed to the scene with first-aid equipment to offer what help she could.
This extraordinary shot of a UPS worker going about his delivery job was taken by photographer Melanie Einzig. In fact, though, it was some years before Einzig actually published the image. You see, she had been concerned that it might be open to misinterpretation or even offensive to some.
Here, the Pentagon, the heart of U.S. military might, burns into the night after having been hit by one of the hijacked planes earlier in the day. Five Al Qaeda terrorists overpowered the crew of American Airlines Flight 77; and as a result, the terrorists, 59 passengers and crew and 125 people who were in the Pentagon died.
Here, rescue workers and civilians run from the dust cloud that was created by the collapse of the Twin Towers. The toxic cloud included asbestos, glass fibers, steel and cement. And this poisonous plume even caused a specific ailment, known as the World Trade Center cough, which was prevalent among those who worked at the towers’ location following the collapse.
Looking at this image of the wreckage left after the collapse of the Twin Towers, it’s almost impossible to believe that we’re viewing the remains of what were once two of the world’s most imposing buildings. When the towers opened in 1973, they stood more than 1,300 feet tall; then following 9/11, it took eight months to clear away the remaining debris.
Professional photographer Spencer Platt was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge when he captured this horrifying shot at the moment United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. Platt told American Photo, “I didn’t hear the second plane, and I certainly didn’t see it. I had put my camera up to take some more frames, and then it just hit.”
This is another shot that was taken with a disposable camera by Kelly Price on Broadway. The man running just ahead of the threatening cloud of dust is journalist George Mannes. In David Friend’s book about 9/11, Mannes later remembered, “I tried to outrun it as it chased me south down Broadway, but I lost.”
This photo shows a shocking contrast between the elegant spire of Manhattan’s oldest church, St. Paul’s Chapel, and the collapsing South Tower, little more than 300 yards away. Miraculously, the church – built in 1766 – emerged from the chaos and destruction around it with not even one window smashed.
The state of these wrecked automobiles gives a vivid idea of the chaos and destruction that was caused by the Twin Towers fire and collapse. They also help illustrate the thickness of the horrible dust clouds that were created by the rapid crumbling of the buildings. This picture was taken by Ron Agam, who’s better known as a fine artist than as a documentary photographer.[/caption]
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