Royce Carlton - Joel Meyerowitz World Trade Center Photos

Photographer, The World Trade Center Archive

The event was a huge success. Mr. Meyerowitz was very gracious with his time and was very interested in mingling with the audience. I think the lecture was probably the best that I have helped program here at UK in the last two semesters.
	University of Kentucky

I think it was one of the best evenings we've ever had at the temple. His delivery was absolutely outstanding. Not only are his pictures wonderful, but he just relates so beautifully with the audience. One person said it was a shame we didn't record it because his remarks really are equally as important, we felt, as his photographs. And he's an outstanding human being. I think we were fortunate to have him. I can't say enough about the evening.

Temple Beth-El

Joel was great! He did an excellent radio interview, had a great time with the students, worked the donors and awed the crowd! He was everything we hoped.
	Laramie County Community College

With his series of images at Ground Zero, Joel Meyerowitz manages uncannily to meld the haunting lyricism of his light-and-space Cape palette to the vivid immediacy of his earlier street-photographer style. And with his slide presentation of the material, he surprises by proving every bit as captivating and evocative a speaker and raconteur as he is a photographer.
	NY Institute for the Humanities

Joel was amazing and such a pleasure to work with and everyone responded really well. The turnout was fabulous we had about 1000 people show up, some had to stand the entire time because all the seats were full. The photo department were especially pleased that he took time to eat dinner with them and spend so much time with the students.
	Utah State University

Joel Meyerowitz is an amazing person who has so much to give. He took so many opportunities to answer questions and to speak to our students at every turn. His lecture and presentation was an amazing experience as well. We had standing room only and no one left. Because of the intensity of his work and the passion of his storytelling; our students, our community, our artists were present for a moment that may never be repeated for them. Yes it is the subject and the work and I think, Joel Meyerowitz himself.

Savannah College of Art and Design

Watching you on Nightline tonight gave me yet another perspective of 9/11. Your photographs were spectacular on television. I can’t imagine how breathtaking they must be in the real. Your chutzpah should be viewed as a gift to the world. Those images will serve the world the way you wanted them to; as a record of an historical event like none other than any of us could have imagined experiencing in our lifetime. The way you spoke about your experiences at Ground Zero was as poetic as your images.

I am so moved by your beautiful work and the philosophy behind it. Thank you for uncovering the tremendous and elegant beauty that exists beneath the layers of rubble and grief at the World Trade Center site.

I am in awe after seeing your story on Nightline. I found your interview to be captivating, sincere and critically important to the documenting of such a major historical segment of our lives. I thank you for your tenacity and strength in documenting this work. It should provide a cathartic relief for some, a moment of pause for many, a headstone for so many who will never have one.

God bless you! This needs to be seen, not like a car accident, or typical blood and gore, but for a much greater purpose that we are probably (and may be for some time) still unaware of. Thanks for your intuition.

I don’t think you will remember me. I am a NYC Police Officer who worked the WTC Ground Zero for two months (Sept & Oct 2001). I’m sure this happened to you over and over, but I stopped you from taking pictures one day and questioned why you were snapping photos. You explained how you were documenting a day to day history of the site. We talked a while, you asked me for my name, then I went back to my assignment and you went off taking pictures. Your task of taking pictures seemed to stick in my head. Whenever I would stop and think about my experience at the site, you and your camera seem to always pop up into my thoughts. Now as I look at the empty hole in the ground in lower Manhattan I realize that you snapping pictures was as important as me digging through the rubble. Your pictures are like portraits of my memories and now the world can see what I am thinking.

Thank you for your dedication to photographing such a tribute to the American Spirit.

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