Mostly True: Broken Things

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Broken Things

Last week it was suggested that the disaster in Haiti was of such a great magnitude that anyone on the ground with a cellphone could make lasting images that the rest of the world would never forget. Not likely, (I…

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After thousands of images, on dozens of different sites, my initial reaction was confirmed. World shocking events such as this need to be properly documented by great photographers. I’m not even talking photojournalists here. Think of Joel Meyerowitz’s work on the World Trade Center as an example.