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New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2007

New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

What does fear look like? What can photography reveal of the unconscious dimensions of terror? Working with the largest photographic archive devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, this article studies the visual inscription of terror in the bodily gestures of eyewitness, gestures that were captured by citizen photographers.