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(9/1/02 12:04 am)
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Introduction to Here is New York
In response to the World Trade Center tragedy, and to the unprecedented flood of images that have resulted from it, a unique exhibition and sale of photographs is running in Soho on the ground floor of 116 Prince Street, NYC 10012. Please see our updates page to find out about our upcoming shows.
Images of Democracy by Michael Shulan
HERE IS NEW YORK is not a conventional gallery show. It is something new, a show tailored to the nature of the event, and to the response it has elicited. The exhibition is subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs" because anyone and everyone who has taken pictures relating to the tragedy is invited to bring or ftp their images to the gallery, where they will be digitally scanned, archivally printed and displayed on the walls alongside the work of top photojournalists and other professional photographers. All of the prints which HERE IS NEW YORK displays will be sold to the public for $25, regardless of their provenance. The net proceeds will go to the Children's Aid Society WTC Relief Fund, for the benefit of the thousands of children who are among the greatest victims of this catastrophe.
The causes and effects of the events of 9/11/2001 are by no means clear, and will not be for a very long time. What is clear, though, is this: in order to restore our sense of equilibrium as a nation, as a city, and particularly as a community, we need to develop a new way of looking at and thinking about history, as well as a way of making sense of all of the images which continue to haunt us.
HERE IS NEW YORK invites anyone, amateur or professional, who has images connected to the World Trade Center disaster to make them a part of the exhibition. Our intention is to display the widest possible variety of pictures from the widest possible variety of sources, believing as we do that the World Trade Center disaster and its aftermath has ushered in a new period in our history, one which demands that we look at and think about images in a new and unconventional way. In keeping with HERE IS NEW YORK's democratic and populist nature, which we feel is not only appropriate to what has happened but intrinsic to its understanding, we are setting only the following limitation on submissions. All pictures must relate to the events of 9/11/2001, in the broadest and yet most intimate sense.
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