'Please find daddy': the haunting missing posters of September 11
A collection of previously stored away posters will be displayed at a new exhibition to mark 25 years since the deadliest terrorist attack in US history
TL;DR
- Artist Phil Buehler is exhibiting 144 'missing' posters from 9/11 for the first time.
- The posters, originally created in a desperate hope for survivors, later transformed into personal memorials.
- The exhibition explores the diverse backgrounds of those represented and reflects on a lost sense of national unity.
- Buehler initially photographed the posters for a website and stored them away for 25 years due to the emotional distress they caused.
- The exhibition, titled 'Countenance,' uses the posters to bridge the gap between past and present, emphasizing humanity and empathy.
- The location of the exhibition in a church is significant, offering a spiritual antidote to commercialism and acting as an 'act of kinship, remembrance, and prayer.'