The intention of this exhibition is to show just how relevant to history, as well as current affairs, the news photograph is to urban and\/or historical research.\u00a0The 14 glass-top cases and wall panels in this show are only the tip of the graphics iceberg that lies in the Star-Ledger\u2019s rich photographic archives. Shot through the lens of\u00a0 The Star-Ledger\u2019s<\/em> photographers, we have two types of events captured here: the news of the day from around the state, and an essay from New Jersey and New Jerseyans of the devastating events of September 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Ambulances from outlying New Jersey suburbs arrive to assist the injured arriving from NYC by ferry at Liberty State Park in Jersey City.<\/em> 9\/11\/01 Photo\/Jerry McCrea\/The Star-Ledger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n In the New Jersey Information Center\u2019s terms, photography and graphics comprise an important part of the research unit\u2019s reference bank. 35,000 black and white separate photographs, and those illustrations in the Center\u2019s book collection are the backbone of its picture storehouse. But also the many illustrations indexed from many of America\u2019s 19th<\/sup> century periodicals, and the almost 800,000 photographs in the old Newark Evening and Sunday News collection, add dramatically to the ability to locate the exact graphic for a researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Charles Christophe of Maplewood is picking up his one-year-old daughter, Gretchen, at South Mountain Day Care Center-a job his wife used to do until she was killed in the WTC attack which occurred two days before Gretchen’s first birthday.<\/em> 9\/28\/01 Photo\/Mia Song\/The Star-Ledger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n “Every picture tells a story,\u201d as the old saying goes, and that certainly is true of the photographs taken on September 11, 2001.\u00a0 The horror of the World Trade Center Buildings on fire, the dignity of policemen in splendid uniforms burying their lost comrades and the sadness reflected in survivors\u2019 haunted eyes; these are the images that are frozen in our minds.\u00a0 Yet what about the scholar, the student or the researcher of the future?\u00a0 What stories will these pictures tell them?\u00a0 What will they say about us and our society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Lower Manhattan continues to burn at 4pm on September 11th in this view from Bayonne. <\/em>9\/11\/01 Photo\/Jerry McCrea\/The Star-Ledger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Photographs freeze a moment, they capture it for the present and the future.\u00a0 They demonstrate what was judged important and valuable enough to record.\u00a0 But of course what is deemed important does not have to be on the world-changing scale of the World Trade Center attack to have meaning and value to people.\u00a0 Photographs demonstrating everyday reality are significant to not only the subjects they immortalize, but also to the researcher.<\/p>\n These photographs were purchased by the Library from The Star-Ledger<\/em> and have become an important source in the Library\u2019s graphic record of New Jersey. For photo reprints, please contact the Star-Ledger at photolibrary@starledger.com<\/a> or 973-392-1530. For more information about the exhibit please call (973) 733-7775.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Through the Lens of The Star-Ledger An exhibition of newly acquired photographs from the collections of the New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library and selected examples of early photojournalism in New Jersey. Second Floor Gallery November 15, 2001 through January 10, 2002 curated by Charles F. Cummings and Ralph Tohlin The intention… <\/p>\n <\/div>\n Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-exhibits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.npl.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}