Set up in an open format, the near life-size images are particularly haunting; it's as if you're standing next to these men and women, some still covered in dust from searching for survivors in the WTC rubble. Other portraits are of grief-stricken families, and reading the descriptions of their connections to the events of 9/11, it understandably gets emotional quickly.
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is in there, as is current mayor Mike Bloomberg. There are pilots of the first NYPD helicopter on the scene after the first plane stuck Tower No. 1. There's a nurse from the NYU Downtown Hospital, and Iron Workers, and Asbestos handlers, and a Securities Trader who worked on the 83rd story of Tower No. 2.
We felt most drawn to the portrait of Michael Lomonaco, who was Executive Chef at Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 106th floor of Tower No. 1. He is pictured holding a simple pair of eyeglasses which he purchased the morning of the attacks, a purchase which delayed him the few minutes needed to keep him alive and out of his restaurant during the first strike. Windows on the World lost 73 employees that day.
Okay. Enough. Just go see the exhibit.
[Photo at top: Joe McNally; Photo at bottom: Jaunted]
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