The Falling Man

The article is an essay about Richard Drew's 2001 AP photograph of a man falling from the North Tower on September 11, and the unidentified subject's place in the record of that day. It describes the image as a composed, almost upright figure whose posture contrasts with other falling people, and says the photo ran in hundreds of newspapers before many American papers stopped publishing it after complaints of exploitation. It notes that Toronto Globe and Mail reporter Peter Cheney was assigned to identify the man, and that Windows on the World lost seventy-nine employees and ninety-one patrons that day, so the Falling Man was likely among them.