From Publishers Weekly
In Lamentations 9/11, photographer David Finn (Children of the World) documents the dozens of New York City telephone polls, subway stations, fences and building walls where people hung posters for missing loved ones after September 11. Pleas for information, messages to family members, children's drawings and commemorative signs make up the moving montages. Finn also includes images of the World Trade Center both before and after the disaster. The photographs are complemented by a kind of prose poem by novelist E.L. Doctorow's (Ragtime), a paean to the city's dead ("We would appear on the perimeters of one another's consciousness, in one another's sightlines, on any given day, passing in the street, riding the subway, shopping for our families... we were one another's context"). There is an introduction by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Book Description
Ruderg text accompanies photographs of posters for the missing put up around New York City following 9/11. It is a personal reflection on the people of the city and the special bond that gives them strength.
