STAND-UPS REPORTING LIVE FROM GROUND ZERO
On September 12th, 2001, I walked to the West Village to see how my sister and nephew were doing following the attacks on the World Trade Center. They live close to the West Side Highway, and I was immediately fascinated by the number of television crews that had set up camp on the West Side Highway, where they would end up staying for two months. It was interesting to me to photograph them as they where doing their live reports--or while waiting to go “On air.” I photographed the television reporters from all over the globe during the entire duration of their stay near Ground Zero for nearly 8 weeks. They were all situated in one particular area which had a circus-like atmosphere where at all hours of the day and night the reporters would be making their daily “Live coverage!” from Ground Zero. As one reporter said to me... “It’s like being on a glass bottom boat and seeing the most amazing coral reef you have ever seen.” The 1951 film, “Ace in the Hole” directed by Billy Wilder, staring, Kirk Douglas, was also an inspiration for this series of work. The story about a frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jumpstart his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Frank Schramm, 2001
September 16, 2001
September 15, 2001
Michelle Franzen NBC - NY September 17, 2001
Michelle Franzen NBC - NY September 17, 2001
Art McFarland WABC - TV NY October 2, 2001
David Waters NY1 October 12, 2001
Akiko Imai Nippon Television Network (NTV) October 2, 2001
Sarah Bloomquist ABC Action News Toledo, Ohio September 22, 2001.
Jeff Goldblatt Fox News - Chicago October 1, 2001
Robert Arnold KPRC Houston, TX. NBC Affiliate October 20, 2001
Edna Schmidt Telefutura / Univision TV Miami October 4, 2001
Jim Nakamura NTV September 17, 2001
Michael Williams WTVJ / NBC Miami September 15, 2001
Michael Williams WTVJ / NBC Miami September 19, 2001
Edna Schmidt Telefutura / Univision TV Miami October 4, 2001
Michael Williams WTVJ / NBC Miami September 19, 2001
Jane Hughes BBC News October 1, 2001
Drew Lewis CBS News Chicago October 30, 2001
Drew Lewis CBS News Chicago October 30, 2001
Bianca Rosa Vilchez Univision - New York September 27, 2001
N. J. Burkett WABC Eyewitness News, NY September 22, 2001
Jeff Goldblatt Fox News - Chicago October 1, 2001
Andrew Ehinger News 12 NY September 22, 2001
Louis Lemieux INFO-TV, Radio-Canada, Montréal September 24, 2001
Paul Moniz WCBS NY Channel 2 September 28, 2001
Rebecca Spitz NY1 NY September 28, 2001
September 29, 2001
Rebecca Spitz NY1 NY November 2, 2001
Gary Anthony Ramsey, NY1 Sandra Peebles, Univision 23 WLTV, Miami October 16, 2001
Yui Hideki NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation September 30, 2001
September 30, 2001
Lou Young WCBS-TV NY September 29, 2001
September 22, 2001
September 15, 2001
Musée de l'Elysée
Lausanne, Switzerland (September 13 - November 20, 2011)
“The series serves as a manifesto: terrorism - and the ensuing international disputes - could not exist without the major role played by the media and the images they broadcast. The exhibition points out that journalists are torn between several roles, which they endorse sometimes in spite of themselves.”
-Pauline Martin
Curator, Musée de l'Elysée
RTS Swiss TV, Pauline Martin as Curator, Musée de l'Elysée 09-11-11
“Standups”
“In Frank Schramm’s powerful work, each portrait testifies to the complexity of the media representation of 9/11; but it is in the series that the intelligence and precision of the artist’s approach manifests itself.”
-Dr. Ulrike Meyer Stump
Lecturer in the History of Photography, Zurich University of the Arts and University of Zurich
Making History – Exhibition of RAY 2012 Fotografieprojekte
Frankfurt/RheinMain , Germany
In April – July 2012, a total of 29 photographs 40 x 40 in size as well as six 32 x 40 prints from the photographic Series, Stand-ups: Reporting LIVE from Ground Zero were exhibited as a part of Ray 2012 – Making History. The photographs were displayed outside at a construction site fence which runs a few hundred feet long between the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Museum Moderne Kunstthe additional images wherein a gallery space at the Börsenvere in across the street from the construction fence.
“Frank Schramm: Stand Ups
Frank Schramm’s Portraits “Stand-Ups: Reporting Live from Ground Zero” show television journalists reporting from Ground Zero shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. For the New York based photographer, it was an intuitive decision to join the journalists to photograph their reporting. He waited ten years to publish this series.
Frank Schramm’s works will be presented as part of the exhibition MAKING HISTORY of the RAY 2012 photography projects presented by the Frankfurt/RheinMain. The focus is on contemporary positions of international artists who deal with public images and explore the significance of media events in a variety of ways.
The presentation of Frank Schramm’s photographs is a collaboration between the Musée de Elysée, Lausanne, Ray 2012 photography projects, Frankfurt/RheinMain, and Frank Schramm.”