[h=1]Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too 'rah-rah' American[/h] By MELISSA KLEIN
Last Updated: 5:47 AM, July 28, 2013 NYPOST EXCERPT:
Posted: 12:03 AM, July 28, 2013
This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum because it was rah-rah American, a new book says.
Michael Shulan, the museums creative director, was among staffers who considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and rah-rah America, according to Battle for Ground Zero (St. Martins Press) by Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month.
I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently, Shulan said.
Shulan had worked on a popular post-9/11 photography exhibit called Here is New York in Soho when he was hired by Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, for his unique approach.
Eventually, chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three different angles of the flag-raising scene.
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That picture offends the left because it is 3 white men raising an American flag.
Last Updated: 5:47 AM, July 28, 2013 NYPOST EXCERPT:
Posted: 12:03 AM, July 28, 2013
This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum because it was rah-rah American, a new book says.
Michael Shulan, the museums creative director, was among staffers who considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and rah-rah America, according to Battle for Ground Zero (St. Martins Press) by Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month.
I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently, Shulan said.
Shulan had worked on a popular post-9/11 photography exhibit called Here is New York in Soho when he was hired by Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, for his unique approach.
Eventually, chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three different angles of the flag-raising scene.
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That picture offends the left because it is 3 white men raising an American flag.
