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9/11 Photo Exhibit Moves to Larger Venue

Aired April 02, 2002 - 06:57   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And those who captured the World Trade Center tragedy on film gathered too in New York.

Our Beth Nissen has the story.

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BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It opened a few weeks after September 11 in a small vacant store in New York City's SoHo district. An exhibit of pictures related to 9/11, contributed by both professional and amateur photographers. Over the last six months, this democracy of photographs has drawn about 300,000 visitors. The related Web site gets a million hits a day.

Now the exhibit, re-titled "History Unframed" has moved to a new, more spacious home in Midtown Manhattan. To mark the reopening, selected photos from the exhibit were shown on the giant screen in Times Square. And the nearly 3,000 photographers who contributed some 7,000 photos were invited to a reception at the International Center of Photography.

Lily Hatchet (ph) took this photo last May from the observation deck of the World Trade Center.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Never again, unless you're like hovering in a helicopter or something right at that spot, you will never have the shot again.

NISSEN: Brian Long (ph) from San Francisco contributed this image shot in 1999.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought it should be in the show to remind people of how beautiful, you know, New York was and that skyline.

NISSEN: Greg Martin's (ph) photo was taken the day after September 11.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this is one of the steelworkers who was taking a break late in the afternoon. And he was pretty upset.

NISSEN: Exhibit organizers are just starting to collect videotaped accounts from photographers about how and where their photos were made. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think they might be starting to sort of talk about it. And it's definitely been a difficult thing for all of us. And I feel that it might help me sort of, you know, get past this stage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back in the back with the good lighting. Everyone go in the back with the good lighting.

NISSEN: Organizers have also made a record of another kind, and turned a camera on the contributing photographers. Some 500 of them posed for a group portrait.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On three. One, two, three.

NISSEN: A brilliant portrait of those who captured a flash of history.

Beth Nissen, CNN, New York.

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