Photographs recall aftermath of 2001 attack
An exhibit of photographs related to Sept. 11 is coming next year to central Ohio, with a couple of other shows about to open:
• Joel Meyerowitz, who photographed the World Trade Center site unimpeded for almost nine months after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, will exhibit some of those photos at Otterbein College in January.
"Inside the Forbidden City," featuring dozens of large color photographs, will be displayed Jan. 2 through Feb. 16 in the Leslie H. and Ethyl Rose Miller Gallery of the Otterbein College Art & Communication Building, 33 Collegeview Rd., Westerville.
Meyerowitz, a 1959 graduate of Ohio State University, will give a lecture about his work on Jan. 24 on the Otterbein campus.
Regarding his 9/11 project, he said: "My task is to make a photographic record of the aftermath — the awesome spectacle of destruction; the reverence for the dead; the steadfast, painstaking effort of recovery; the life of those whose act of salvation has embedded itself deeply into the consciousness of all of us in America and around the world."
The exhibit is part of Otterbein’s Signature Series, which will also present the musical piece On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams at 8 p.m. Feb. 6 in Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., Westerville.
The composition, awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for music, is a remembrance and meditation on 9/11 events performed by an orchestra, a chorus and a children’s choir and on recordings. Otterbein students will participate in the performance.
For more information about the photography exhibit, call 614-823-1792. For information about the performance, call 614-823-1508.
• Two photography exhibits assembled after the events of 9/11 will open Saturday at the Ohio Historical Center, I-71 and E. 17 th Avenue.
"Picturing What Matters: An Offering of Photographs From the George Eastman House Collection" includes 128 images selected by the museum staff to affirm American beliefs and ideals. These include the historic flag-raising scene at Iwo Jima shot by Joe Rosenthal, Ben Fernandez’s portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. outside the United Nations and Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother.
"The Armory Wall: A Tribute to September 11 Photographs by John Taylor and Dianne Dubler" documents the bulletin board established at the Armory building on New York’s Lexington Avenue immediately after the destruction of the twin towers.
The exhibits will continue through Jan. 28. For more information, call 614-297-2300 or visit www.ohiohistory.org.
