jberryhill [Broken External Image]:https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/donor.gif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:05 PM
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Sam Hollenshead - the "angle cut column" photographer

Edited on Mon Sep-17-07 09:10 PM by jberryhill
In 2001, Sam Hollenshead was a staff photographer for Labor Research Associates.

For example, if you searcj the articles from the union site workinglife.org, you will find a lot of examples of his work.

http://wbff.org/films/detail.asp?fid=664

Sam Hollenshead worked as a photographer from 2001-2003 documenting union labor throughout NYC. In 2004 his photographs of the rebuilding of subway infrastructure at the World Trade Center site were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York.

http://www.samhollenshead.com/bio01.html

After 9/11, he documented workers at the World Trade Center site clearing debris and rebuilding damaged subway lines. Images from this project were published in the New York Times Magazine and displayed at the Museum of the City of New York in a group show with Magnum photographer, Bruce Davidson and MacArthur fellowship recipient, Camillo Jose Vergara. A solo exhibition of his subway photographs is currently on display at the New York City Transit Museum until December 2006.

http://www.samhollenshead.com/escontacts/wtccontact.htm...

http://www.lraphotography.com/essays/sep11/essay_wtc.ph...

When historians sit down to write about September 11th and its aftermath, they will have to reserve a page of History for the workers at ground zero whose tireless efforts saved lives and helped New York City rebuild itself. Here is the story of workers at ground zero. Photography by Sam Hollenshead.

The fact that Mr. Hollenshead spent a lot of time documenting ironworkers renders it no surprise that many of his WTC photographs involve people working with torches.

wildbilln864 [Broken External Image]:https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/donor.gif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:37 PM
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1. good find!
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Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:40 PM
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2. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

I've written to Mr. Hollenshead to ask whether he has more information about that photograph, or is even aware of how it is used by Richard Gage et al.
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Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:46 PM
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3. good deal then......
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please keep us posted if you will. [Broken External Image]:https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/hi2.gif
And maybe you can ask him about these pics as well?
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Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-18-07 09:16 AM
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5. He wrote back....

He's going to check his notes for more information about the photograph, but he has written back to me and said:

"i do recall that the photo of the firefighters was taken almost a month after 9/11 and the cut beam in the background was almost certainly cut by a worker, not the result of 'intentional demolition.'"