Exclusive photo gallery, featuring the rarest and most powerful photos of the 9/11 attacks you may have never seen before.
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers causing both to collapse. The government is preparing to release a once-classified chapter of a congressional report about the attacks of Sept. 11, that questions whether Saudi nationals who helped the hijackers with things like finding apartments and opening bank accounts knew what they were planning. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday July 15, 2016, that the release of the 28-page chapter is “imminent.” (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
One of the towers of the World Trade Center collapses after being struck by a hijacked commercial airplane, in New York September 11, 2001. (STR/REUTERS)
Smoke plumes are clearly visible in this Landsat 7 satellite image of New York City made early on September 12. (NASA)
The photographer considered this 9/11 Brooklyn scene too tranquil at the time. He decided not to publish the image widely until four years after the attacks. (Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Photos)
An expert in 19th-century photographic techniques brought a wooden view camera and a daguerreotype plate to his Chelsea rooftop, capturing this three-second exposure as the south tower disappeared on the horizon. (Jerry Spagnoli)
On a Brooklyn rooftop shortly after the collapse of the Twin Towers, Jenna Piccirillo and three-month-old Vaughan embody innocence and resilience, according to the photographer: “Life continues in the face of disaster . . . despite the horrors we inflict on one another.”
(Alex Webb/Magnum Photos)
