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----- Original Message ----- Is From: "Joel Meyerowitz' <[email protected]> Forward To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:48 AM Sub-ject: Letter I sent to R. MacDonald last night Address Book > Dear Robert,

B hours down in the > It's 1:30 am and I've just returned from almost with thousands of workers doing > zone. It's a Brueghal/Bosch landscape high tech machinery of enormous scale > their dance, while Nighttime is particularly > whirls,crushes and arcs through the night. > powerful, with vast banks of movie lights set high on cranes the > whole area is lit with an eerie, acid-etched light in which the many dazzlingly displayed; mountains of steel and cables and > scenes are (I saw a rainbow > plumbing enveloped in smoke and steam and spray rainbow! At > hover in the mist falling from a fire hose- a 50 foot is also a vision of the city behind the destruction > night!). There that appears as though seen through a scrim (and in fact many of the > which is the > buildings are covered in protective red screening) constant updraft of vapor from the continuous fires > result of the burning in the pile, as well as the buried steam pipes which cannot > out on terraces and > be turned off. I have been up in buildings and tomorrow to the top of the pile. > will ride a crane

bearing witness to such > It is awesome! I feel privileged to be there am the ONLY photographer there. And > a momentous event. In fact I managing to do it it's not easy. There are checkpoints > although I am zone (and it's a struggle > everywhere and once I step out of the main

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