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9/11 Memorial Waterfall Close-Up - New York Remembrance Photography

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A tight close-up of the bronze parapet of the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, the cut letters of each victim's name catching low light as the waterfall pours over the edge behind. Michael Arad's "Reflecting Absence" memorial chose to commemorate the dead by inscribing every single name — 2,983 of them, including the six killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — into bronze panels around the two pool footprints. The names are arranged by "meaningful adjacency," grouping coworkers, friends, and first responders the way they actually died, not alphabetically. Photography rarely gets closer than this to what the memorial is doing for the city.