(Back
of the Book)
Thank
You:
I
wish to thank:
my
darling wife Janet Cinelli for tolerating my risky art form; and to everyone
along the street in Europe, America, and Asia whose path I crossed during that
most confusing era, and who helped me get safely down my road.
I
also wish to thank those friends and family (Janet and Karen Cinelli) who agreed
to read copies of the manuscript to let me know where I strayed in my story and
how I might improve the flow of the telling of this strange and awful tale we
all shared...
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(ABOUT
the AUTHOR)
In
1979 Gary Smith established his global street photography studio in Lawrence,
Kansas. After earning his undergraduate Photojournalism and News-editorial
degree in 1984 from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass
Communications at the University of Kansas, Smith met, dated, and married Janet
Cinelli. In between then and now, Smith has traveled to and practiced his street
photography discipline in more than 50 worldwide locations and in 1996 he earned
a Master of Photographic Arts graduate degree serving a teaching fellowship at
Purdue University. In 1991 Smith was a first-time winner of an international
American Photo Magazine competition for his earlier streetphoto work at the war
in El Salvador, and in 2000 he repeated as an American Photo winner for his
volcanic streetphoto work in Montserrat.
In 1999 Smith
released his first streetphoto book about life on the streets at the bottom of
an erupting volcano, Molten Memoirs,
and in 2000 he released a portfolio collection of 145 of his global street
photographs from around the world, Searching
For Washington Square.
Smith (a
registered Republican) spends most of his time in the Cradle of Liberty living
the good life, taking streetphotos, writing books, teaching, canoeing on Lone
Star Lake, bird watching at the Kansas River, annoying Janet and the cats, or
tracking down disturbances in the night for the chance to squash lawless newbies ...
(BACK
COVER)
September
11,
2001
“I
always knew what to do next,”
I remember thinking,
“But now I had no clue …”
Since nothing could possibly
justify what he saw on TV on that awful day, it looked as if Gary Smith would be
going reluctantly off to war as a confused pacifist on a pacifist sabbatical. A
regular peace-loving American, unjustly ravaged on TV and slack-jawed out of a
professionally cynical and skeptical mindset and forced to fight back in order
to save his soul. Forced to face his and his country’s demons and to somehow
create a civilized balance within himself throughout that first year of the
Global Terror War between good and evil, hollow pacifism and revenge-feuled
bloodlust, and rage and peace of mind.
Like
every other innocent civilian in the new civilian war, he found himself remote
but not removed from the horror of 9/11. And during the following year he lost
hold of his comfortable cynicism and became transfixed to the wartime media.
Mourning the dead, suffering the loss of security, and wrestling with America
--- fitting his old life and beliefs around the whole new bloody TV world he’d
been dragged back into.
Trying to
figure out all by himself what it all meant and why they’d done this awful
thing to us.
Follow this accomplished global street photographer in his smart, ironic
and sometimes even humorous photo-journal account of one of the worst years of
our lives. From his heartland home at the Cradle of Liberty in Lawrence, Kansas, to the Al-Qaida Last Stand at
Tora Bora in Afghanistan. From the streets of the red light district in
Amsterdam and the Champs Elysées in Paris where he was stranded on that day, to
the streets and the stink of Ground Zero as it burned and smoldered, as he
try’s to gather his post-September 11 marbles in light of his whole
new world --- from both sides of the 24-hour CNN Breaking News Screen.
People
are crazy and times are strange,
I’m
locked in tight,
I’m
out of range,
I
used to care,
But things have changed
...
I
wonder who
won
?
