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Here are the Part 3 and last part of the Most Powerful 9/11 photos as published by Life. You can see part 1 and part 2 as well.
This image is probably one of the most famous 9/11 photos. It was made by Bergen Record photographer Thomas E. Franklin on the day of the attacks, eerily calls to mind one of American history’s most iconic pictures: Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima.
Jennifer S. Altman, a freelance photographer, took this picture of the towers ablaze, and far, far below them, one woman wearing an expression of pure horror. Five years later, Altman was invited to the home of the woman in red, Rose Parascandola, who had been working at an online-trading company on the 51st floor of WTC 1 on September 11. “She said that I really captured how she felt. She had seen it in the paper, and that it meant a lot to her.” For Altman, it was a meaningful photo, as well. “It was a turning point in my career. All my skills came together at once in a professional way. But it also made me very aware of my life; I don’t take things for granted.”
Looking West Over St. Paul’s, Lower Manhattan.
Men running from scene after collapse of one twin tower on 9/11/2001.
A man covered in dust walks in the street near the site of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, in this photo taken early September 11, 2001.
The north tower of New York’s World Trade Center collapsing after being struck by hijacked American Airlines Flt. 11, Sept. 11, 2001.
A rescue helicopter surveys damage to the Pentagon as firefighters battle flames after an airplane crashed into the U.S. military Headquarters outside of Washington in an apparent terrorist attack, September 11, 2001.
A firefighter runs from scene of 9/11 after one tower collapses.