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    The document discusses Richard Drew's famous photograph "The Falling Man" taken on 9/11 which showed an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center towers. The photo was only published once due to audience complaints that it was too graphic. While controversial, the photo evokes the human experience of 9/11 terrorism and drives consideration of the victims. The document also compares it to other 9/11 photos and debates the ethical implications of publishing images showing death and violence or exploiting suffering.

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    The document discusses Richard Drew's famous photograph "The Falling Man" taken on 9/11 which showed an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center towers. The photo was only published once due to audience complaints that it was too graphic. While controversial, the photo evokes the human experience of 9/11 terrorism and drives consideration of the victims. The document also compares it to other 9/11 photos and debates the ethical implications of publishing images showing death and violence or exploiting suffering.

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    The document discusses Richard Drew's famous photograph "The Falling Man" taken on 9/11 which showed an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center towers. The photo was only published once due to audience complaints that it was too graphic. While controversial, the photo evokes the human experience of 9/11 terrorism and drives consideration of the victims. The document also compares it to other 9/11 photos and debates the ethical implications of publishing images showing death and violence or exploiting suffering.

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    THE FALLING MAN

    - Photographer: Richard Drew, AP


    journalist
    - Taken in 2001, moments after 9/11 terror
    attack
    - One of very few photos to show someone
    dying on 9/11
    - Ran once in U.S newspapers, before
    being banished to obscurity due to
    audience complaints
    - Subject or the ‘falling man’ has never
    been formally identified
    WHY?
    Visual composition:
    - Linear pattern
    - Subject ‘bisecting towers like an arrow’, according to Richard Drew

    Emotional capacity:
    - 9/11 and terrorism as a human
    experience
    - Evokes emotional response
    - Drives us to consider subject and
    other victims
    HOW ARE THESE PHOTOS RELATED?

    - Both show horror of 9/11 terror attacks

    - Both have strong ethical implications:


    - Ethical boundaries of publishing photos
    showing death and violence
    - Exploiting suffering or fulfilling an ethical
    duty?

    Sontag: photography is inherently brutal and


    voyeuristic
    Linfield: photos of 9/11 are ‘an insult to the
    dead and a brutal shock to the living’

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