In a studio just blocks away from Ground Zero there is a one-of-a-kind camera, a 12-foot by 12-foot high Polaroid. It takes pictures that are 40 inches wide by 80 inches tall - larger than life-size - and yields images of striking immediacy and clarity. With this camera, longtime LIFE Magazine photographer Joe McNally, architect of some of the biggest photographic productions ever attempted, created a series of portraits of the (mostly) anonymous heroes of Ground Zero. Over the course of two weeks, more than 200 people - survivors, firemen, policemen, volunteers, doctors, nurses, widows, children - came before McNally's lens. Twenty-six of these portraits were featured in the "One Nation". This volume contains a total of 150 McNally portraits, featuring those from the travelling exhibition as well as several that have never been shown before. Also included is a foreword by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City, and an essay on this historic photographic project by McNally himself.

About the Author
Joe McNally is an award-winning photographer who has shot cover stories for National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and New York Magazine. In 1994 he was appointing the first LIFE magazine staff photographer in more than 23 years.


Book Information
ISBN 9780316523707
Author Editors of LIFE Magazine
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Little, Brown & Company
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Weight(grams) 975g