"BEFORE" SLIDE SHOW:
Early in the morning of 9/11/2001, David Monderer took photographs of the downtown New York skyline from the pedestrian walkway of the Manhattan Bridge. The photos on this page below were all taken between about 7:45AM and 8:44AM. The North Tower was hit within a few minutes after the last photo was taken. (Check out the other pages of this site: Series 1, Series 2 & 3 & 4, Slide Shows, Series 5, for subsequent photos after the attack started.) He arrived early that morning because that is when the sun would light the scene from directly behind him and cast no shadows on the buildings. For a few weeks, he had been meaning to take photos from the bridge in the early morning and decided that since the weather was forecast to be sunny, he would go there that day. [Click on image then press PLAY to activate slide show]
Early in the morning of 9/11/2001, David Monderer took photographs of the downtown New York skyline from the pedestrian walkway of the Manhattan Bridge. The photos on this page below were all taken between about 7:45AM and 8:44AM. The North Tower was hit within a few minutes after the last photo was taken. (Check out the other pages of this site: Series 1, Series 2 & 3 & 4, Slide Shows, Series 5, for subsequent photos after the attack started.) He arrived early that morning because that is when the sun would light the scene from directly behind him and cast no shadows on the buildings. For a few weeks, he had been meaning to take photos from the bridge in the early morning and decided that since the weather was forecast to be sunny, he would go there that day. [Click on image then press PLAY to activate slide show]
PURPOSE
The purpose of this website is to get some exposure for these photos by the 15th anniversary of 9/11, so that they can one day be properly displayed in their best possible light. This website is not the intended finished product. Of the many photos shot, only the first photo above has been seen widely. Other photos have not even been printed or scanned in high resolution due to a lack of funds. It is the photographer's hope to get a museum, institution or publisher interested in helping to properly preserve and display these photos at their best. To find out how to contact the photographer, Click Here.
The purpose of this website is to get some exposure for these photos by the 15th anniversary of 9/11, so that they can one day be properly displayed in their best possible light. This website is not the intended finished product. Of the many photos shot, only the first photo above has been seen widely. Other photos have not even been printed or scanned in high resolution due to a lack of funds. It is the photographer's hope to get a museum, institution or publisher interested in helping to properly preserve and display these photos at their best. To find out how to contact the photographer, Click Here.
Photo dated 9/11/2001, Copyright 2001, David Monderer.