[LizardQueen]

This article pisses me off beyond words. They're talking about the artistic value of the photo, the composition, the alignment with the buildings. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IT'S A PICTURE OF A MANS DEATH!!!!!! NOT AN ART SHOT!!!!!

And the unmitigated gall of the photogs to pass around pics of the falling man at funerals! I can't believe these pieces of horse dung would do such a thing, just to find out who the man was for their own disgusting and morbid curiousity!
These people are crap, pieces of shit, lowlifes of the worst order, lower than ambulance chasers and paparazzi, and not worthy of the electrons and/or paper that this dungheap article was printed with.

LQ

[LizardQueen]

Ok, now that my rant is off my chest, I'd like to address the display/supression of the falling peoples pics:

I have mixed feelings. On one hand I don't think details should be published that could cause the families any more pain than they have already experiences. But we also have a duty not to forget those who jumped and the horror of that day.
Blurred jumpers I'm ok with publishing, detailed jumpers and hunting down the families of those who might have jumped I object to, vigorously.

LQ

[Lazamataz]

This article pisses me off beyond words. They're talking about the artistic value of the photo, the composition, the alignment with the buildings. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IT'S A PICTURE OF A MANS DEATH!!!!!! NOT AN ART SHOT!!!!!

Yes, but don't you think that this treatment actually increases the horrific realization thereof?

In a backhanded way, haven't they done us a service?

[Last Visible Dog]

This article pisses me off beyond words. They're talking about the artistic value of the photo, the composition, the alignment with the buildings. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IT'S A PICTURE OF A MANS DEATH!!!!!! NOT AN ART SHOT!!!!!

I think you people have completely missed the point of this article. It is philosophical commentary. I think it has gone completely over your heads. Try reading it again. This is one of the most insightful and revealing articles I have read on 9-11 – it is well written.

Equating the “Falling Man” to the unknown soldier of wars is a masterful analogy.

[Quix]

Uhhhh,

hello?

ART is about highlighting, emphasizing, interpreting, focusing

LIFE

AND

DEATH.

The one reverberates educationally back and forth with the other in an enlightening feedback-loop.

If one can't handle the intensity of the communication--look away.

Other people may be enlivened, encouraged, edified, lifted, focused TOWARD GREATER LIFE by even excruciatingly startling artistic depictions of unspeakably horrid death.

If you're not up to that, so be it. But please avoid denigrating others who might be up to it.