Saturday January 1, 2000, New York City, New York, USA

New Years Eve 1999-2000 in Times Square

Fireworks mark the stroke of midnight during New Years' Eve celebrations in Times Square.

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1989, New York City, New York, USA

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays 'Tralala' in 'Last Exit To Brooklyn.'

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Friday February 28, 2003, New York, New York

Daniel Libeskind at Ground Zero

Daniel Libeskind, whose design for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site was selected, visits Ground Zero with his two sons.

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Thursday July 1, 1982, New York City, New York, USA

Mass wedding ceremony

Hundreds of couples are married by Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Madison Square Garden.

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Monday March 11, 2002, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Twin towers of Light

Twin towers of light commemorate the six months since terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed the towers killing almost 3000 people. The view at 7:00 P.M.

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February 1998

U.S. Navy F-14

A U.S. Navy F-14 launches from the U.S.S. George Washington during the Iraqi Crisis.

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Thursday September 26, 2002, New York City, New York, USA

NYC Sex exhibit at Museum of Sex

The exhibit, NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America, opens at the Museum of Sex on 5th Avenue and E. 27th St. in Manhattan. Bondage & Discipline.

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1985, Armero, Colombia

Mudslide triggered by the eruption of the Nevada del Ruiz volcano

23,000+ people lost their lives when the city was buried by a mudslide triggered by the eruption of the Nevada del Ruiz volcano. Omaira Sanchez, 13 years-old, was pinned by the body of her aunt and a building wall. She died of exposure before she could be freed.

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Tuesday September 11, 2001, New York City, New York, USA

World Trade Center attack

Two planes hijacked by Arab terrorists crash into the World Trade Center. The twin towers collapsed causing almost 3,000 deaths.

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Thursday July 11, 2002, New York City, New York, USA

Bank of New York office at Ground Zero reopens

An upward view of the newly renovated interior of the Bank of New York building. Chairman and CEO Thomas A. Renyi and New York Governor George Pataki welcomed employees back to their operations and technology center at 101 Barclay St., which had been badly damaged in the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Tuesday September 11, 2001, New York City, New York, USA

World Trade Center attack

Two planes hijacked by Arab terrorists crash into the World Trade Center. The twin towers collapsed causing almost 3,000 deaths.

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1990, Zwickau, East Germany

New Trabants at factory

New Trabants for export at the Trabant Factory.

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October 1995, New York City, New York, USA

John F. Kennedy Jr. at George Magazine launch

John F. Kennedy Jr. launches George Magazine in Federal Hall.

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Tuesday December 3, 2002, New York City, New York, USA

AOL Time Warner Executive Steve Case

AOL Time Warner executive, Steve Case, leaving a meeting with stock analysts. AOL Time Warner Inc. said advertising sales at America Online, the biggest Internet service, will plunge by as much as half next year, leading to a drop of at least 15 percent in the unit's profit before some costs. AOL Time Warner shares fell as much as 13 percent, their steepest drop since July.

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Wednesday May 30, 2001, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Interport Container Terminal

Interport Container Terminal.

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1991, Kuwait

Burning oil well

A destoyed Iraqi tank is silhouetted by a burning oil well.

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July 1999, Colon, Panama

Container port in Colon

After passing the Gatun Locks, a German container ship is about to leave the Panama Canal for the Caribbean Sea.

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Tuesday September 11, 2001, New York City, New York, USA

World Trade Center attack

Two planes hijacked by Arab terrorists crash into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The twin towers collapsed causing almost 3,000 deaths.

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Wednesday December 12, 2001

Operation Noble Eagle, America's Homeland Defense campaign

US Air Force New Jersey Air National Guard KC-135 Tankers from the 108th Air Refueling Wing refuel US Air Force Air National Guard F-16 Fighter Jets on Combat Air Patrol over Washington, D.C. as part of Operation Noble Eagle, America's Homeland Defense campaign.

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1995, Hyde Park, New York, USA

Russian President Boris Yeltsin and President Bill Clinton

President Bill Clinton laughs uncontrollably at a joke made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a summit at FDR's home.

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1998, New York City, New York, USA

Donald Trump

Donald Trump outside his Trump International Hotel.

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Tuesday September 11, 2001, New York City, New York, USA

World Trade Center attack

Two planes hijacked by Arab terrorists crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, destroying them and killing almost 3,000 people. Businessmen run up Broadway to escape debris cloud as south tower collapses.

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1999, New York City, New York, USA

Jazz musician Georgie Fame

Jazz musician Georgie Fame in Times Square.

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Homestead, Florida, USA

Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew

A man and his wife have their morning coffee in the remains of their mobile home after Hurricane Andrew.

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Thursday March 21, 1991, Iraq

Operation Desert Storm

The Big Red One shares the desert with camels on a mechanized march inside Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

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1991, Kuwait

Oil wells on fire in Kuwait

A Kuwaiti family surveys the oil fields set ablaze by Saddam Hussein after his defeat in the Gulf War.

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1988, Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish rite of circumcision

A baby boy undergoes the Jewish rite of circumcision, or Brith Mila, at the Diaspora Yeshiva.

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Thursday July 3, 1986, New York City, New York, USA

Celebration of the Statue of Liberty Centennial

The 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York harbor. Three blimps, the World Trade Center, and the Empire State building line up in this view from the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy.

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1986, Java Sea, Indonesia

Oil Rig

Oil platform at night in the Java Sea.

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Allan Tannenbaum

Born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1945, Allan Tannenbaum has been photographing since the 1960's. After receiving a BA in Art from Rutgers University in 1967, he made films as a graduate student at San Francisco State College and as an independent filmmaker in New York. He then taught photography and filmmaking at Rutgers in the early 70's. When the SoHo Weekly News commenced publication in 1973, Tannenbaum became the Photo Editor and Chief Photographer. This lasted until 1982 when the SoHo News folded. The high point of this period was photographing John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the paper -- the low point was the murder of John Lennon 10 days later.

Upon the demise of the SoHo News, Tannenbaum joined Sygma Photo News as a Staff Photographer. Since then he has covered, among many international news events, unrest in South Africa, the volcanic disaster in Colombia, the Philippine Revolution, rebellion in Burma, the Palestinian Intifada, the siege of Kabul, the Gulf War, and the Rwandan refugee crisis. He won a first prize in Spot New Stories at the World Press Photo competition in 1989 for his coverage of the Intifada. His work has appeared in many photo books and exhibitions, as well as appearing regularly in NEWSWEEK, TIME, LIFE, PARIS MATCH, and STERN. He is currently at work on a book of photographs from the SoHo News era entitled SoHo Blues. Over 50 of these photos were exhibited in 1997 at Visa pour l'Image, the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France.

Tannenbaum covered the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, photographing the explosion of the second plane and Ground Zero between tower collapses. His photographs have been published in Time, Paris Match, Newsweek, and numerous other magazines and newspapers. He now works with Polaris Images and the Tribeca Trib. Tannenbaum lives with his wife Debora in Manhattan.

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