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I think that last week’s visit definitely delivered what the the ICP claimed it would. They showed how much of an integral part of our society photography is through the 9/11 memorial, which demonstrates how much a part of ‘remembering’ photography is. We make scrapbooks of our youth and immortalize every birthday, barbeque and bar mitzvah. Likewise these photos will always be in our hearts to remember those lost. Along with becoming the mode of ‘remembering’, for our century, the fact that the catastrophe on 9/11 was so well documented, is most definitely one of the main reasons why we as a country responded so militarily. Those photos figuratively moved a mountain, the mountain that is the United States, and struck at our collective hearts. The exhibit definitely broadened my knowledge on the subject of photography, even if to only expose the vast amount of photographic genius that came out of 9/11.