World Trade Center: Tribute and Remembrance

Great book, beautiful pics

For over twenty five years they stood as sentinels at the gate of New York City and we took them for granted. When they were first built, every body complained. I called them two stacks of saltine crackers. Now, that they are no more, we only remember them bathed in the golden sunlight of our memories. They were more beautiful from a distance than they were up close and these photos show them at their best. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to remember the towers standng tall. The photography is spectacular.

This book is tremendous...lots of great shots of the buildings from many different angles. Not just a tribute to the WTC, but to New York City itself. Amazing color and clarity - great views of surrounding structures, the water, etc. as well. Really makes the buildings come alive. I highly recommend this one!

Briefly,This book is a tribute to the World Trade Centre itself and its iconic position on the New York Skyline (a city I have never had the pleasure to visit). The strength of this book lies in its relatively distant aproach that conveys the scale of the loss on the 11th September without forcing the reader to relive any potentially traumatic footage of that day. The Stunning aerial footage of the buildings and the skyline make this book a memorable keepsake. Final Say? I would commend this book for a kinder evocation of catastrophic loss such as was suffered. A book for all age groups. Many Thanks,- Irish Reader.

The pictures in WORLD TRADE CENTER: TRIBUTE AND REMEMBRANCE are generally good. They are, as one might expect, mostly pictures of the outside of the World Trade Center buildings. There are also, however, a number tangential pictures of other New York buildings contained herein, and the book opens with an image from inside an exhibit at Ellis Island; this might lead a person to wonder why, in a book fewer than thirty pages long, there would be such a significant number of images of something other than the book's titular subjects.It certainly got ME wondering....The text is decent, and informative, but at times feels a bit superficial. It glosses over the significant role that Phillip Pettit's high-rise walk between the towers had in endearing the WTC to New Yorkers, and ascribes that gain in affection instead to the towers' 1993 bombing. It ends pretty lamely as well; the last sentence in the main body of the book is, "The Columbus, Ohio DISPATCH reported that Bangladesh, which had no companies but dozens of restaurant workers in the buildings suffered the biggest loss of life among Asian countries in the cataclysmic terrorist attacks of 2001."Thank you ma'am, that really summed things up nicely. Bangladesh, got it.The interiors of the buildings are never shown, the history of the buildings is only shown by a couple of images of its construction, and the terrorist attacks that brought them down are never really addressed, though they are referenced here and there. I did like, however, that the images of the towers' destruction were never shown here, as it put the emphasis of the book more on the buildings as there were in life, not as they were on their final day. (Most of the images of the book come from a single photographic expedition of Carol Highsmith's, from two months before the 2001 attacks.)Overall, this is an okay book, but I doubt that it's ultimately the very best one to celebrate the towers. It's incomplete, uneven, a bit random and unfocused, and slight enough to read in its entirety in fifteen or twenty minutes, but it's not a bad book; it does contain a number of really good images, and some interesting facts. I'm glad I own it, and I plan to hold on to my copy as a visual reference.

This book, albeit with a rather promising cover, is barely 30 pages thick... I think 25 pages would be an overstatement! It is too thin for one to truely grasp the beauty of those 2 towers. The many pictures, I found, are so similar, taken from the sea from different distances and at different angles. It's too boring for one would have familiarised with the New York skyline within the first 6 pages. However, the pictures are clear and taken on days suitable for postcard-pictures, if you know what I mean. A mediocre book, buy it only if you want to vaguely remind yourself of the 2 towers and their pre-eminence in Lower Mahattan or if you have never seen the towers before.

Slim, photo-packed hardcover rembrance of the World Trade Center. Most of the photos (all in color) were taken in the August 2001 and are supplemented with some descriptive text. A few photos are included of the WTC's construction. The 2001 photos show the towers from nearly every conceivable angle and vantage point in and around Manhattan, but a more thorough tribute would have included some photos of the interior of the towers, the plaza in between, and probably a few views from the observation deck. Still, it's hard to be overly critical right now and the price is pleasantly non-exploitative.