Stanley Forman’s photo vs. The Falling Man

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Stanley Forman’s photo vs. The Falling Man

Photo by Stanley Forman

Stanley Forman’s photo portraits a 2 year old girl and her godmother falling from a fire escape in Boston while being rescued from a fire in their home. The godmother did not survive the fall. This photo is shocking and disturbing, but not as much as the one taken by Richard Drew named, "The Falling Man” which portraits one of the horrors from the 9/11 terrorists attacks. Both photos were taken in chaotic incidents involving fire, but there is a huge difference among them. In Stanley Forman’s photo, both the 2 year old and her godmother are falling down due to an accident with the fire escape stairs. If there would not have been an accident in the escape stairs, they would have survived. Instead, Richard Drew’s photo portraits a falling man that has no escape from death. It was either jumping, or burning to death inside of one of the Twin Towers.

Photo by Richard Drew