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posted by catherine / July 08, 2005 / 
you know what the large, front-page picture on the washington post today was?
a camera phone shot, taken by a london subway rider, of people trudging through a dark, smokey tunnel. the post has an article here on the immediacy offered by such shots, and includes the photo they used on their front page in the sidebar. no, it's not great quality, but it shows terror and context and raw information better than any professional photojournalist could have.
despite the horrific nature of the attacks, i think that is rather amazing.
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I saw, by midday, video, actual video, from a camera phone filming the evacuation of one of the underground carriages shown on one of the networks. It showed folks evacuating and at one point they were walking by windows that had been blown out ( by the blast? perhaps people were breaking the glass to get fresh air? ) and he or she panned back and forth. As you said, the quality wasn't great, but the immediacy made up for it.
Have a safe and happy weekend. I might do some hurricane blogging Sun-Mon depending on how interesting and/or intense the feeder bands are. --s
I noticed that, too--it's incredible, really. From now on, we'll always have access to eyewitness images of any event like this.
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