FACES OF GROUND ZERO, Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, Joe McNally, 2002
Foreword by Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Joe McNally's now classic portraits of those closest to the World Trade Center tragedy.
In a studio just blocks away from Ground Zero there is a one-of-a-kind camera, a 12-foot by 16-foot by 12-foot-high Polaroid. It takes pictures that are 40 inches wide by 80 inches tall—larger than life-size—and yields images of striking immediacy and clarity.
With this camera, longtime LIFE Magazine photographer Joe McNally, architect of some of the biggest photographic productions ever attempted in the magazine industry, created a stunning series of portraits of the (mostly) anonymous heroes of Ground Zero.
Over the course of two weeks, more than 200 people—survivors, firemen, policemen, volunteers, doctors, nurses, widows, children—came before McNally's lens and, in a way, bared their souls. Twenty-six of McNally's portraits were featured in the New York Times, #1 bestseller ONE NATION, and a selection of 50 are stirring hearts nationwide as they travel from city to city in a touring exhibit.
Faces of Ground Zero contains 150 McNally portraits, those from the exhibition as well as several that have never been shown before. It will also include an original essay by McNally on the historic project.
9" x 11", 160 pages, 160 photos, hardcover, ISBN: 0-316-52370-4, BF0079 / $19.95