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22/7/2002

History Responds

New York Historical Society, New York

Four exhibitions: photo and paintings

Twin Towers Remembered: The Photography of Camilo Joe Vergara
July 23 - October 20, 2002
Mr. Vergara, an internationally acclaimed documentary photographer, photographed the World Trade Center over a period of 31 years beginning in1970, when the complex was still under construction. A long-time New Yorker, over the years he photographed the towers from countless perspectives, ate very time of day, during all four seasons. The exhibition includes photos from far-off neighborhoods in New Jersey and the outer boroughs, from ferryboats on New York Harbor, from "below" on the plaza, and from within the Twin Towers themselves. What emerges is a comprehensive index of the myriad ways (emotionally, geographically, intellectually) that the people of greater NYC and their visitors defined themselves in relation to the city's most prominent landmark. An accompanying catalog was published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero
July 23 - October 20, 2002
Vermont-based photographer Kevin Bubrinski, most famous for his photos of the Himalayan region, made four trips to Ground Zero in the weeks after September 11. While there, he trained his camera on the stunned visages of some of the thousands of people who made the "pilgrimage" to Ground Zero in those early days. These eloquent images, taken in early October and mid-November 2001, are also featured in an accompanying catalog by powerHouse books.

Beyond Ground Zero: The Forensic Science of Disaster Recovery
July 23 - October 20, 2002
Beyond Ground Zero: The Forensic Science of Disaster Recovery is comprised of images taken by photojournalist Richard Press at the various facilities of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office and Fresh Kills landfill in the months since September. The photographs document the efforts of investigators and forensic experts to find and identify victims of the WTC disaster. They offer a rare and poignant view into the largest investigation in the history of forensic science while examining how a technological society copes with disaster. Richard Press studied physical and forensic Anthropology at Cornell University and photography at the City College of New York. He is a former forensic photographer for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York.

In the Light of Memory: A Spherical Panorama from the South Tower, World Trade Center, January 2001
July 23 - October 20, 2002
In the aftermath of September 11th, Long Island artist Christopher Evans was moved to create this unique panoramic art work: a meticulously detailed, technically impressive painting of the view from the top of WTC Tower 2,executed on a 24' plexiglass sphere. The work, which depicts the top of WTC1 and the surrounding metropolitan-area skyline, is designed to be contemplated from all sides as a sort of inversion of a traditional panorama. The breathtaking view memorialized is from a vantage point now lost to history.

The History Responds Project at The New-York Historical Society

In 1804 a group of civic leaders and business people, galvanized by the need to preserve the vanishing record of America's struggle for independence, came together to found the New-York Historical Society. For nearly 200 years, the N-YHS has served as the collective memory of the New York City region, documenting and interpreting the past while preserving and collecting for the future.

In keeping with its founding vision, and in accordance with its mission to "collect, preserve and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material related to the rich history of New York City and State", the New-York Historical Society has taken a leadership role in the collection, safekeeping and interpretation of historical materials related to the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the uncertain weeks that followed. The project is called History Responds.

The goals of the History Responds Project are to:
-- Collect, preserve, document, contextualize, and make accessible an archive of objects and documents from September 11 (and its aftermath) that will be available for study and contemplation at the Historical Society and on the Internet to researchers and, through interpretive programs, to the general public, students, and teachers.

-- Open a public dialogue about the events and implications of September 11 through exhibitions, school programs, teacher workshops and public panels that offer historical perspectives on the World Trade Center attack and on how New Yorkers have faced and conquered extraordinary challenges in the past.

New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street
New York
212 8733400

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