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ith his custom-built, 8 x 10-inch, wide-angle camera designed to capture the beautiful expanses of the arctic, Professor of Art David Hanson, a landscape photographer, captured a poignant piece of history. Though he never made it to the arctic, in 1993 and 1994, Hanson rented a helicopter and took finely detailed black-and-white images of Manhattan — including the World Trade Center towers —that could be enlarged to as big as 8 feet by 10 feet without losing quality. The grand scale provides the viewer, as Hanson describes, “the feeling that they were standing in the air from that vantage point.”
fter the terror attacks of 2001, the pictures were “a painful reminder of what had been and was no longer,” says Hanson, who has taught at FDU since 1972. The negatives lay dormant until Hanson’s wife, Kay, suggested in 2008 that he show some prints to the curator of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Their meeting led to the museum funding Hanson in producing 10 high-quality digital scans along with 16 x 20-inch prints of those historic aerial photographs. A grant-in-aid from FDU allowed him to scan and print an additional 10 images, eight of which were also donated to the museum.
an Seidler Ramirez, chief curator, calls the photographs “breathtaking” and says they will help museum visitors, many of them unfamiliar with the site before its destruction, understand how the towers dominated Manhattan. She adds that Hanson’s images “articulate the soaring thrust of the Twin Towers, the breadth of the World Trade Center campus and its former centrality within the Lower Manhattan cityscape.”
ortions of the September 11 Memorial are expected to open at Ground Zero this year on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, with the museum opening to follow in 2012. According to Ramirez, the institution will use Hanson’s high-resolution digital files to produce images as needed for exhibitions. And through the museum’s archives, those images will live on indefinitely. To see more of Hanson’s New York City shots, click on the Web Exclusives button below.
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