“I moved through the fog, past police officers standing by their cars with masks on, past news photographers crossing the sides of the street at a run. I saw completely exhausted firefighters coming towards me and, in between, passers-by with freshly blow-dried hair mistakenly on their way to work.”
offset print, open stitch binding,
Deutsch, Englisch
2nd edition
A quarter of a century after Holger Biermann’s first photographs documenting the horror of September 11, 2001, five years after work on this book began, and two years after its first presentation, Leaving Today. 9/11 New York remains strikingly relevant in its enduring warning.
Published in this year of remembrance, this new edition presents the Berlin photographer’s images of life on the streets of New York during the terrorist attacks of September 11 and over the following two years. This later view of the city—rendered in black and white and in the tradition of classic street photography—is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks to the events of that day. The photographs are accompanied by a foreword by Freddy Langer, editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and an introductory essay by the photographer.
After the book’s dummy was shortlisted for the Luma Dummy Award 2024 and the first edition sold out within three months, Blotto Books now presents this second edition, published in both English–French and English–German bilingual editions.
“The book as an art object is comfortable to hold, pleasing to look at, with gripping images capturing a spectrum of emotions: a field manual for street photography”
Lee Halvorsen (photobookjournal.com)
