Twin Towers: The View from New Jersey
A love story between a dentist from New Jersey with a passion for photography and the iconic New York skyline.
Simon Leventhal has been a dentist in New Jersey for 30 years. He is also an accomplished amateur photographer who has travelled the world – from Africa to the Galapagos – taking photographs of nature and animals in the wild.
His favourite photographic subject, however, was a little closer to home. Some would call it a passion, others an obsession, but Simon spent 30 years capturing more than 50,000 images of the World Trade Center.
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“Critics saw ‘ugly’ in the architecture of the Towers,” he explains. “Academically they may have been right, but emotionally they were all wrong. On a rainy day the Towers could be dull; when the light was right they were magic.”
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The last image he took of the buildings was two days before they were brought down.
Now this enormous collection of beautiful images – taken at all hours of the day, in every season and all types of conditions – is a unique and valuable archive.
“I never intended for the collection to be presented to an audience,” Simon explains. “However since the demise of the Towers, I am happy to share them so that people will not forget how iconic they were as the visual anchor of the scene.”
Twin Towers: The View from New Jersey tells the love story between one New Jersey dentist and the World Trade Center.
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