The Best Photos of the Day

The Best Photos of the Day

MANILA.- Most collectors think of New York, London and Paris as the world's great art centers, but it would be a mistake to overlook the Philippines, with its centuries of Spanish influence. Manila's premier auction house, Salcedo's, will offer both European and Philippine paintings and antiques on Sept. 18-19, with absentee and online bidding through LiveAuctioneers. View the catalog at www.LiveAuctioneers.com LIVEAUCTIONEERS/SALCEDO AUCTIONS PHOTO

COBB.- A stone statue stands is a residential neighborhood destroyed by wildfires near Cobb, California, on September 15, 2015. According to Cal Fire, the Valley Fire has burned 585 homes and 67,000 acres (27,114 hectares). The Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, that erupted at the weekend killing at least one person, has forced the evacuation of more than 23,000 people. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON

The Best Photos of the Day

PARIS.- A picture taken on September 2015, 2015 shows the Montparnasse tower in Paris. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

PARIS.- A young married couple and a young girl pose for picture in front of an Hercule statue taming the bison on the Trocadero plazza in Paris, on September 15, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LUDOVIC MARIN

The Best Photos of the Day

FUXIN.- A statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong is seen in Fuxin, in the northeast Liaoning province on May 29, 2015. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO

The Best Photos of the Day

SAN PEDRO.- Protesters against Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump demonstrate in San Pedro, California, on September 15, 2015. Trump is speaking onboard the World War II battleship USS Iowa, which is now a museum in San Pedro. AFP PHOTO /FREDERIC J.BROWN

PARIS.- Rodin's bronze sculpture "Saint Jean Baptiste" is reinstalled in a room of the Hotel Biron at the newly renovated Musee Rodin (Rodin Museum) in Paris on September 15, 2015. The museum will re-open to the public on November 12. AFP PHOTO / FLORIAN DAVID

The Best Photos of the Day

SAN PEDRO.- Protesters against Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump demonstrate in San Pedro, California, on September 15, 2015. Trump is speaking onboard the World War II battleship USS Iowa, which is now a museum in San Pedro. AFP PHOTO /FREDERIC J.BROWN

PARIS.- Rodin's bronze sculpture "Saint Jean Baptiste" is reinstalled in a room of the Hotel Biron at the newly renovated Musee Rodin (Rodin Museum) in Paris on September 15, 2015. The museum will re-open to the public on November 12. AFP PHOTO / FLORIAN DAVID

Aftermath

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'Aftermath: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz' at the Berman Museum commemorates heroic 9/11 efforts

Joel Meyerowitz, North Bridge and Winter Garden, 2001. Color photograph. Collection of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Gift of John Hugh Newman. COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- On display at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College from Friday, September 11 through Wednesday, December 22, Aftermath: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz takes viewers back to the traumatic days, weeks, and months that followed the harrowing events of September 11, 2001. Immediately after the terrorist attacks, the Ground Zero site in New York City was designated an active crime scene and closed off to reporters and photojournalists. Sensing the magnitude of the historical record about to be lost, internationally-acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz fought for access to the site. Through a combination of tenacity, fortuitous personal connections, occasional subterfuge, and sheer will, Meyerowitz became the only photographer allowed to document the World Trade Center site over the course of its painful transformation from disaster zone to construction site to meditative memorial. For nine months he photographed "the Pile," as the World Trade Center came to be known, and the courageous rescue personnel, police officers, firefighters, and construction workers leading the recovery efforts inside it. Aftermath: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz presents fifty of the wrenching images from this moving historical document. Using both a large-format view camera and a 35-milimeter Leica, Meyerowitz made over 8,000 images around the sixteen-acre site where the Twin Towers once stood. His images show the mangled metal, shards of broken glass, and cascades of files and papers in the still-smoldering piles of debris; the riot of patriotic color seen in spontaneous memorials; and the elegiac silence of the dust that seemed to cover every surface in Lower Manhattan. Eventually, as his weeks in “the Pile” wore on, his subject shifted from the panoramic sweep of complete devastation to the intimate moments of mourning, strength, determination, and resilience in the faces and figures of the people on hand. In clearing the debris, these men and women prepared the nation’s collective wound to be healed.