It became a charged image very quickly and it disappeared from sight very quickly And yet at that paper, and across the country, there was an outcry from the readership saying how could you publish an image like this? This is offensive, our children could have looked at it, and a result the image basically disappeared from sight. There were so many images coming across the wire that day but this one stood out for her because it encapsulated the horror of the day. Interestingly, Singer notes that while this was one of the images that stood out on that day’s coverage it has almost gone away, to the point where Singer decided it deserves a movie: With the opening of the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan, the Design Observer ran an interview with Henry Singer who directed a documentary about this photograph back in 2006 – It tells the story of this controversial image: who took it how it was first published and censored the responses of the families, and the search to discover the identity of the man in the photograph. The subject of the image, whose identity remains uncertain, was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper who either fell searching for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke.
during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. Interestingly, despite the strength of the photo is has almost disappeared from the news shortly after it was published. One of the photographs most associated with that day is The Falling Man. If I asked you where you were on that day you’d probably remember. Some dates are defining dates and everyone remembers where they have been on those date.
The Falling Man / Associated Press / Richard Drew
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