In light of my most recent post on shock photography I'd like to expand and comment on Jon Meyerowitz's photographs for 9/11. He was asked to be the exclusive photographer for 9/11, instead of taking the shock photography route, he embraces a different technique. He focuses on the aftermath, the "trace of the event." There is an interesting juxtaposition between calmness of his photographs, and the stills we've all seen taken from video on 9/11. Those freezeframes were chosen to depict 9/11 as accurately as possible. They tell you what happened. Campany states that for years photography taken of an event defined what the event was. It was these photographs that somebody would look for to find out what happened and form opinions. This is interesting to me. In the past, photojournalists would have to search to capture the perfect moment indicative of the current event. Now, we have all these videos to choose stills from, to represent this event, like an icon. Stills of 9/11 were chosen as icons to present the information. In contrast, Meyerowitz captures the event by showing the aftermath and finding a way to instill a sense of hope.