James Nachtwey

September 11, 2001 (Indoor escalator of Wintergarden)

2001

Abandoned, debris-covered escalators rise in a dark, empty atrium with a lone figure at the top.
Abandoned, debris-covered escalators rise in a dark, empty atrium with a lone figure at the top.

James Nachtwey, September 11, 2001 (Indoor escalator of Wintergarden), 2001. Chromogenic print, sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Image: 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Vivendi Universal 2002.132

Recto

Not on view

Date
2001

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Image: 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm)

Accession number
2002.132

Credit line
Gift of Vivendi Universal

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/16522



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