Art in the age of Terrorism

Reading the article by Karen Randell sparked a memory of my own. Looking back on 9/11 I can visually see the towers falling and the repeated images and film that played on during that day as well as the rest of the week. I was in 5th grade and still young to understand but still have never forgotten what those images are in my head. As Randell says about the Michael Moore film where he plays the sound first then the image and the impact it has on us, is interesting to me. As they once you loose your sight your other senses become heightened and I feel like in this sense it does. The sounds can not be forgotten and is a powerful tool. With photography we rely very much on our eyes and what the photographer wants us to see, but when we see nothing and hear it we create our own image in our head. As if we were our photographers. I think that is important to hold onto especially with news castings and social media its hard to differentiate the real from the "real".