@patrickwitty

Director of Photography at The White House. Past lives at The New York Times, TIME, WIRED, and National Geographic. Kentucky native.

 Washington, DC
patrickwitty.substack.com/
Joined July 2010
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9:59 a.m., September 11, 2001. Bodies were falling. The South Tower began to collapse. I turned around. This is what I saw.
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This is Craig, Ryan, and Sharon. Craig’s son reached out to me a few years ago. He said Craig worked in the World Trade Center and was rushing to a pay phone to call home. Sharon’s niece contacted me in 2022. She said her Sharon survived the attack in 1993 and was on the 32nd floor of the North Tower. Recognize anyone? Help me find the rest.
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This photo was taken a split-second later. We all started running
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bri@peacefrog69Sep 14
You know he was probably beating himself up about being late, thinking that he just fucked his future plans, only to realize being late is the reason he has a future at all. Holy fuck
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I’ve spent the last twenty-five years searching for the people in my photo. I’ve found ten. This is Benjamin. He was late for a job interview in the World Trade Center.
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I’ve spent the last twenty-five years searching for the people in my photo. I’ve found ten. This is Benjamin. He was late for a job interview in the World Trade Center.
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VANITY FAIR
@VanityFairSep 10
Whatever else September 11 did, it ushered in the age of global simultaneity. The whole world, literally, was watching. Never before had more people seen the same news event at the same moment. An estimated two billion people or more—a third of the species—saw the attacks in real time or watched coverage in that day’s news reports. Vanity Fair’s David Friend chronicles the impact of 9/11 on an already image-saturated media ecosystem: vanityfair.visitlink.me/5WvH…
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David Friend@DavidMFriend1Sep 10
My essay on how the world, war, and media changed that dreadful day, which shaped the grave and global impact of the digital age vanityfair.com/story/how-9-1…

9/11 Changed the World in Many Ways. It Also Spawned the Digital Media Era

With shock and awe, the attacks altered an already image-saturated media ecosystem—and so much more.

vanityfair.com
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New York City, before and after. Photographs by Thomas Hoepker @MagnumPhotos
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Of the thousands of photos I’ve edited of White House Press Secretary @karolineleavitt, this is one of my favorites. A quiet moment with @POTUS in the Cross Hall, photographed by Joyce Boghosian. She’ll be missed.
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Of all the Dolly Parton photos that have resurfaced, this 1973 Polaroid by @chrissteinplays is my absolute favorite
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RIP Dolly Parton. Love this photo of Dolly with President Carter, taken at the White House in 1979 by Jack Kightlinger
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Another angle from Dolly’s 1979 White House visit, by legendary @washingtonpost photographer Harry Naltchayan
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I photographed Lindsey Graham for @thestate newspaper back in 1999. He had a great sense of humor. RIP.
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On April 29, 1979, President Jimmy Carter attended Game 7 of the @NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Atlanta Hawks and Washington Bullets. Photographer is unknown. Carter disliked photographers, and remains the only modern president who didn’t have an official White House photographer.
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This photo by Susan McElhinney (that won a @WorldPressPhoto award) certainly didn't help Carter's relationship with photographers.
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Update: The Carter photo was taken by Jack Kightlinger who worked under five Presidents- Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. This 1969 photo of LBJ in the Cabinet Room is among my favorites of Jack’s. RIP.
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On June 7, 1967, David Rubinger, covering the Six-Day War for LIFE magazine, made this photo, arguably the most iconic and widely-recognized photo in Israeli history.
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But Rubinger hated that photo, and it nearly ended up on the cutting room floor. He preferred this one instead. patrickwitty.substack.com/p/…
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