Michelle Delaney
Collections Manager, Photographic History Collection
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"We think of photographs as objects, not just as graphics..." |
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"Collecting for September 11 has probably been the most important thing I've done..." |
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"...why did the individual feel it was important to photograph?" |
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Shelly Foote
Assistant Chair, Division of Social History
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"...you kind of have to set that aside and think of it as a curator..." |
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William Yeingst
September 11 Collecting Curator
Museum Specialist, Division of Social History
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"...we're very interested in the kinds of everyday stuff that Americans have used..." |
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"...objects that were there. . .witnesses to this larger event in American history." |
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"Now the challenge is to find the larger context that this all fits in..." |
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". . .we spent many many hours networking with individuals in various agencies to complete our job." |
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"This was really a process of negotiation..." |
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Jim Gardner
Project Director, September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs
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"...we have had unusual cooperation" |
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"...think about who we are and what our nation stands for." |
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Peter Liebhold
September 11 Collecting Curator
Museum Specialist, Division of the History of Technology
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"We sat down as a staff, almost like a family around the kitchen table..." |
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"...we're much more comfortable collecting artifacts that are clearly historical..." |
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"I thought it was really important to understand normalcy before September 11..." |
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"...people were coming in from Japan to see that site and to leave offerings at the location..." |
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"...it will be years before all of the artifacts that are important to this collection will be in the museum." |
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"...we don't really know how people are going to react to these objects." |
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"...as they become history rather than current event, we will be able to let the collections grow..." |
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"It was a very consultative process..." |
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Marc Pachter
Acting Director, National Museum of American History
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"...suggested endurance of our nation..." |
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David Shayt
September 11 Collecting Curator
Museum Specialist, Division of Cultural History
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"What we are doing is building a collection for all time here" |
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"Preservation for posterity, whose uses we can't even, or ought to imagine" |
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"I see our collections like a tree or like a big bush" |
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Helena Wright
Curator of Graphic Arts, Division of Information Technology & Society
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"Objects are witness to the fact that something did exist in the past" |
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"...the immediacy of this situation is quite unusual." |
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