Contribution to Book
Icarus Returned: The Falling Man and the Survival of Antiquity
Contemporary Art/Classical Myth
(2011)
Abstract
This chapter examines the so-called "Falling Man" photograph: Richard Drew's infamous image of an anonymous man in free fall, following his jump from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Using Aby Warburg's iconographical method, I read this figure as a latter-day Icarus, putting Drew's photograph in dialogue with other representations of Icarus as a way to explore the image's unconscious force.
Keywords
- Falling Man,
- Richard Drew,
- Icarus,
- Aby Warburg,
- photography
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Editor
Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennifer Hersh
Publisher
Ashgate
ISBN
978-0-7546-6974-6
Citation Information
Sharon Sliwinski. "Icarus Returned: The Falling Man and the Survival of Antiquity" SurreyContemporary Art/Classical Myth (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sharon_sliwinski/14/