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This book combines a first person account of the events of September 11 with a uniquely artistic view of the DNA recovery effort. Gripping texts and award winning photography combine to create a unique documentary of Mikey Flowers' experience.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a florist and volunteer Emergency Medical Technician named Mikey Flowers grabbed his digital camera and ran the few blocks from his store to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit the north tower. That day he helped people who escaped the towers, tended to the injured, and miraculously survived when the south tower collapsed. When he was able he took pictures of the stupefying chaotic scene.
The images that Flowers took became the basis of a collaboration with the artist Kevin Clarke, whose studio was also near the WTC. Since 1988, Clarke has been making unique portraits combining photographic images and his subject's DNA sequences. For this collaboration, Clarke used Flowers' images of 9/11 and its aftermath for portraits of people who survived the attacks or who were involved in the rescue effort.
The contents of this book are the subject of an exhibition tour which opened at the International Center of Photography in New York, June 28-September 1, 2002.
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Since 1987, Clarke has been making unique portraits combining photographic images and his subject's DNA sequences. He frequently exhibits his work in Museums and galleries in the US and Europe. His 1984 book The Red Couch, A Portrait of America was a best seller.
Michael F. Collarone (Mikey Flowers) has been a florist for 25 years and a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician since 1995.
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- PublisherArs genetica
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0972190201
- ISBN 13 9780972190206
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Kevin Clarke (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. Bibliographic information states 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Slight cover wear and sticker residue. The contents of this book are the subject of an exhibition tour which opened at the International Center of Photography in New York, June 28-September 1, 2002. Every Sept. 11, Michael Collarone, a Brooklyn-bred florist who goes by Mikey Flowers, has the same routine. In the hours before 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane struck the World Trade Center 19 years ago, he parks his truck in downtown Manhattan and, bearing buckets of angelic white roses, walks to the site where he once helped scour for victims' remains in the twin towers' smoldering wreckage. There, the burly 62-year-old meets up with "my guys" from the Port Authority police. This year, he will be wearing a mask for the first time and, for social distancing reasons, the victims' names will be played from recordings on a loudspeaker rather than read aloud from a stage, but little else will change for him. "I'm going to hug my friends," he says. "I'm going to hug my guys." Collarone's steadfast devotion to honoring the victims of 9/11 isn't a once-a-year kind of thing, though. He's been the de facto volunteer florist to Ground Zero since it was known around the city as the Pile or the Pit. And that didn't change when the novel coronavirus forced New York to freeze in place in March, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum chained off its eight-acre plaza. A couple of days a week, as he's done for the past eight years following the memorial's opening, Collarone or members of his shop would drop off a donation of 50 to 100 white roses. This book combines a first person account of the events of September 11 with a uniquely artistic view of the DNA recovery effort. Gripping texts and award winning photography combine to create a unique documentary of Mikey Flowers' experience. On the morning of September 11, 2001, a florist and volunteer Emergency Medical Technician named Mikey Flowers grabbed his digital camera and ran the few blocks from his store to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit the north tower. That day he helped people who escaped the towers, tended to the injured, and miraculously survived when the south tower collapsed. When he was able he took pictures of the stupefying chaotic scene. The images that Flowers took became the basis of a collaboration with the artist Kevin Clarke, whose studio was also near the WTC. Since 1988, Clarke has been making unique portraits combining photographic images and his subject's DNA sequences. For this collaboration, Clarke used Flowers' images of 9/11 and its aftermath for portraits of people who survived the attacks or who were involved in the rescue effort. A view of smoke billowing from the ruins behind a group of firefighters is overlaid with the DNA sequence of 13-year-old Ty Fujimora, who was evacuated from a school near the towers; another of the smoldering remains is paired with the genetic code of firefighter Dennis Grady; a third, which shows the south tower soon after it was hit, is covered with Flowers' DNA code. Among the other subjects represented in the project are Port Authority police officer Tom Kennedy, Police Detective Roger Parrino, Sr., and rescue volunteers Amy Wallin and Tony B. The resulting pieces are poignant tributes to the people who lost their lives and to those who tried to find survivors. His usual method is to get to know the person and then to spend weeks or even months looking for an object or scene in which he "recognizes" the individual. He then photographs it, digitally manipulates the color and image, and overlays it with the subject's genetic code, which is sequenced by a laboratory from blood donated by the subject. For this collaboration, Clarke used Flowers' images of 9/11 and its aftermath for portraits of people who survived the attacks or who were involved in the rescue effort. Seller Inventory # 80955
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