{"data":{"id":"16309","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":16309,"topgoose_id":8845,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":16309,"title":"Liberty Plaza, New York, September 11, 2001","display_artist_text":"Susan Meiselas","display_date":"2001","accession_number":"2002.96","dimensions":"Sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)\r\nImage: 15 11/16 × 23 1/2 in. (39.8 × 59.7 cm)","medium":"Chromogenic print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSusan Meiselas, \u003cem\u003eLiberty Plaza, New York, September 11, 2001\u003c/em\u003e, 2001. Chromogenic print, sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)\r\nImage: 15 11/16 × 23 1/2 in. (39.8 × 59.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2002.96. © Susan Meiselas, Magnum Photos, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberty Plaza, New York, September 11, 2001\u003c/i\u003e is one of series of photographs that Susan Meiselas shot in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The image centers on another artwork: a sculpture entitled \u003ci\u003eDouble Check\u003c/i\u003e. Created by J. Seward Johnson Jr. and placed on the site in 1982, this statue of a businessman with an open briefcase—presumably “double-checking” his work before entering a nearby office—assumed new significance in the wake of September 11, when it stood intact amidst the rubble, covered in ash and strewn papers. In capturing this specific moment—the enduring presence of Johnson’s hauntingly lifelike work of art in the eerie quiet just following the buildings’ ruin—Meiselas registers a narrative of destruction and survival in a single frame.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A dust-covered man sits amid rubble and scattered papers, holding a briefcase and looking down.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:23:40.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:18.643-05:00","images":[{"id":104228,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/16309/2002_96_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"5420","type":"artist"}]}}}}