LAFAYETTE TODAY
Images from Ground Zero
A photo exhibition
and keynote lecture by Joel Meyerowitz, the only photographer granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, capped the Class of 2009’s first-year experience. Throughout the academic year Lafayette’s newest students explored issues related to America’s identity, human security, and civil society, with the visual arts serving as a catalyst for intellectual dialogue.
Beginning a few days after the attacks, Meyerowitz created an archive of more than 8,000 images of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero and the immediate neighborhood. The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs asked the Museum of the City of New York and Meyerowitz to create a special exhibition of images from the World Trade Center Archive to send around the world. Entitled “After September 11: Images from Ground Zero,” the show, which completed a 60-nation tour, was displayed in the lobby gallery of Skillman Library.
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