Photographs by Steve McCurry • Susan Meiselas • Larry Towell • Gilles Peress•
Thomas Hoepker • Alex Webb • Paul Fusco • Eli Reed • David Alan Harvey • Bruce Gilden
• Chien-Chi Chang • Bruce Davidson • Hiroji Kubota • Dennis Stock • Burt Glinn •
Richard Kalvar • Josef Koudelka • Raymond Depardon
Additional photographs by Evan Fairbanks, Adam Wiseman, Ann-Marie Conlon
"The date, September 11, 2001, now has a certain permanence, graven on ourcollective memory, like a very few others December 7, 1941, and November 22, 1963, dates which seem to separate yesterday from today, and then from now. They become the rarest of moments; ordinary people will forever be able to tell you where theywere and what they were doing when they first heard the news, as if the terrible deed had happened to them, which in some ways it did."

--from the introduction by David Halberstam
A portion of the retail sales and publishers’ net proceeds from this book are being donated to The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund
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By now, the story of September 11 has been burned into our collective memory, but few have seen New York from the perspective of Magnum photographers. Eleven members of the legendary photo agency immediately dispersed from their monthly meeting in New York as the events unfolded to document the incomprehensible. Their photographs, by turns haunting, surreal, and breathtaking, are collected together in New York September 11, by Magnum Photographers, compellingly presented in this high-quality edition from powerHouse Books. From their various vantage points we are transported to Ground Zero to witness the destruction of the World Trade Center, the buildings’ implosion which sent thousands fleeing through the streets from debris, only to return to the scene in quiet observation and respect for the rescue workers whose jobs had only begun—and of the mourners who had been gathering struck with grief.
Gilles Peress
Susan Meiselas
Alex Webb
Larry Towell
Magnum Photos, founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour, is a cooperative of nearly sixty photographers. For the past half century, Magnum photographers have worked for nearly every major publication in the world. The photographers are particularly well-known for their photo essays and seminal photo books, including Vietnam Inc. by Philip Jones Griffiths in the ’60s and Gypsies by Josef Koudelka in the ’70s. To this day, Magnum continues to produce the very best in documentary photography, as evident in New York September 11, by Magnum Photographers.

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. His latest book, War in a Time of Peace (Scribner), was recently released to critical and commercial acclaim.

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A portion of the retail sales and publishers’ net proceeds from this book are being donated to THE NEW YORK TIMES 9/11 NEEDIEST FUND. The New York Times has established this fund to collect contributions to relieve the suffering of families struck by death or injury in the World Trade Center disaster, both civilians and rescue workers. The Times will cover all administrative costs, so every dollar contributed will go for relief. Funds will be distributed by seven social service agencies and three foundations representing the uniform services. The agencies have agreed unanimously that they will do so according to a single uniform standard: need.

Hardcover, 9.125 x 12.75 inches, 144 pages, 74 four-color and 20 black-and-white photographs, ISBN 1-57687-130-4, $29.95
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