Comments on: Ira Block – 9/11: Faces of Hope https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: bullockphoto https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112958 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:21:52 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112958 I find the objects more powerful than the portraits. They say more than a portrait could. I would be interested to know how this was installed in the gallery… In pairs, say, the man next to his shoes… I think that could be a really powerful presentation. The keyboard image, for me, is haunting and lasting… What a representation of a 21st century tragedy…

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By: Brian Frank https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112427 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:22:31 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112427 Image 12 stopped my in my tracks.

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By: Ronda https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112415 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:44:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112415 Beautifully put. The world was changed forever after 9/11.

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112391 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:37:46 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112391 @PATRICIO

“…Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself…”

The Rolling Stones

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/sympathy+for+the+devil_20117881.html

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112390 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:32:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112390 Life in NYC can stil be dangerous…
Different kind of violence but still violence..
Look what happenned to this photog here:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/woman-73-sexually-assaulted-in-central-park/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120913

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112380 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:11:52 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112380 Without the context I find them pretty dull as images (14 is ok I guess), but I guess that the story they are attached to is very important, especially for Americans. I realize of course that saying anything negative about ANY aspect of this event, even a belated photo essay, is akin to turning up at a Klan rally in a Farrakhan suit, but nonetheless I find this kind of work uninteresting no matter what the event it is attached to.

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By: pAtrIcIO m. https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112379 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:58:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112379 @ IRA: Yes, focus in positive, I really like portraits that you’ve made. I think that every portrait must be aside a short text from the person about how he escaped or how he managed to go on with life. That’s important, to look and read for a couple of minutes personal stories, then look again at the picture. Photography is about that…

@ PANOS:
Thanks for the link, love it the same as “Loose Change” movie. Can’t believe what I saw some years ago in that documentary. Don’t have the answer of your questions… but it might be like “1984” or “Animal Farm” by Orwell. Sad like that…
Remember that an italian guy called Niccolò Machiavello also wrote some interesting stuff in… 1519!!
We can’t tame THE beast :-(

Stay safe in the camper, drive safely, the journey is the reward.
P.

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112375 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:14:19 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112375 Breaking News:

They killed 4 American ambassadors in Libya… Obama live on TV/ NPR… JOURNALISTS asking him WHO did it and if this is a beginning of the BIG war.. He had no answer.. although I have a terrible suspicion who’s behind it…So we are on orange alert today.. Airports.. Ports … Everywhere ….
First time i heard Obama admits on NPR he has “no idea” who killed the 4 government American employees .. Now combine this with Netanyahu’s “rush” for attack and it all blends together.. Unfortunately :(
So I’m asking myself (you)
Does HISTORY repeats itself out of our pure IGNORANCE / poor school education/ propaganda? or is it “deeper” and more complicated than that?
Plz someone figure this out before we have more victims all around the world…
People need to take over.. Enough with LEADERS and SAVIOURS..
We need to act, our only weapon to awaken people is ART!
Let’s use it… Stop being a merely paid “fly on the wall”
Get involved .. Don’t let your leaders push the buttons of fear and nuke our kids..
I personally have no kids, I might die tomorrow , who cares, but to all of you that have children,
plz plz be cautious when choosing/ electing your/our LEADERS

“don’t follow LEADERS, watch the Parking Meters…”
Bobby Dylan

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By: wendy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112374 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:37:26 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112374 POWERful….
no words needed…..
**PEACE**
to all….
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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112371 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:01:43 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112371 http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/12/us/politics/12stanford.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120912

MITT ROMNEY , a pro Vietnam supporter
( watch slideshow above )… Vote for him if you need a war earlier than SCHEDHULED ….!!!!???
As they say: why wait for tomorrow if you can start the War today? If that’s the case the Mitt is “our” man for the “job”
Yikes:(

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112370 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:42:12 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112370 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/united-states-and-israel-engage-in-public-spat-over-iran-policy.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120912

(From today’s news): this is the lessons we learned almost 12 years later…
Hmmm it seems that history repeats itself, is it history or is it ourselves???
Why nothing changed ( towards the better )?
Still finding refuge in aggression … Another war is coming…
Ill end up believing that there’s no more “secure” job is War Photographer..0% unemployment ..
It smells gun powder in the air.. One more already designed WAR is coming… They are “preparing” us again same old school style ( weapons of mass destruction )
This world is vicious? Are we vicious ourselves or is it ONLY our “leaders”?
We need to decide.. Are we gonna sit back on our couch and watch another war through CNN?
Hmmmm….. Being a war photog seems such a secure job after all and that’s sad ( to say at least )

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112367 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:22:10 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112367 “The DEADLIEST FORM OF VIOLENCE is POVERTY”
GANDHI

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112366 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:07:16 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112366 plz watch the above….you’re about to waste your time anyway so there’s another chance/way to do it…and dont be so scared,…
u might find “something positive” to hang on to…or not…you choose…although choices been made already…
and plz plz do not accuse me for determinism be4 u watch it all…
love peace and hugs…
(remember im on your side;)
aight? sho nuff!!!

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112365 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:58:26 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112365

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112363 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:49:29 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112363 what bobby dylan tried to say is that we still dont “know” who really “did it”….do we?

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112362 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:44:30 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112362

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By: abele https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112355 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:55:34 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112355 great photography but I struggle to see the actual life of these persons beyond the portraits and the still-lifes shown here. Maybe it’s due to the “entomologist” approach of the author (no distracting background, perfect lights, large format), maybe it’s due to the same expression in most of the survivors portraits (a distant glance -looking back to that day- a quiet painful dignity, a sort of amplified knowledge…). “These are they who came out of the great tribulation”, literally: but being a survivor is enough to encompass one’s life? What if the guy who found again his wedding ring got divorced six months ago?

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112351 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:37:30 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112351 I got up this morning without the date even registering. The house was cold, I was home alone, the sun bright and beautiful just as it was on that day, so I headed to Abby’s Home Cooking for an excellent.

Then I came home, and opened this.

Suddenly, I knew what day it was. Suddenly, my mind and spirit was put right back where it should be on this date, every 9/11 for the remainder of my life.

Thank you.

And thank you, too, MW, for sharing your experience and your throw away camera pictures.

As for me, in those moments when I was not glued to the TV, what I did on that date was to take a cat about to die from fatty liver syndrome to the vet (this morning when I awoke, she was asleep beside my head) and at one point drove to a certain spot about 30 miles from here where I sat and watched spawned-out salmon die.

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By: Akaky https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112350 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:02:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112350 Great, simply great.

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By: skiwaves https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/ira-block-911-faces-of-hope/#comment-112349 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:59:48 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=12069#comment-112349 How appropriate, and well done.
At the end, I wanted to see more.
Probably a good way to finish.
My flag is flying today.

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