| I don't know if I could do anything useful at that point but I know for sure that if I had taken that photograph, I sure-as-hell would not let it be published (and exploited). The crazed pursuit of money by slimey newspaper publishers direct such stories.
When people were falling from the twin towers some were photographed, but very few photographs, indeed almost none, were published until well afterward.
And yes, laying down between the rails is often life-saving, but in a panic, and if the space between the rails hinders it, the instinctive reaction would be to try getting out of there.
-yoram
On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Andrew Davidhazy wrote: Very sad event indeed. Not sure what I would do ...but maybe instead of trying to get up on platform I would have instructed him to lie down between rails ... I think some people who had fallen were saved that way.
This photograph reminds me of a similar scene, B&W Pulitzer photo I think, of a girl falling to her death from jumping from a burning building ... I think that is it but not positive. Were any 9/11jump victims photographed?
Andy
On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:12 PM, John Palcewski wrote: New York is abuzz over the Post's front page photo of a man on a subway track about to be run over. The photographer claims that he was using his camera flash in an attempt to alert the subway train's conductor, to save the guy, actually. The big question is: what would YOU do if you were on that platform, with your camera, and had only about ten seconds to respond?
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