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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
David Smith in Washington

‘Please find daddy’: the haunting missing posters of September 11

An installation image from Countenance: The 9/11 Missing Posters
An installation image from Countenance: The 9/11 Missing Posters. Photograph: Phil Buehler

He saw the first one on September 11 itself. “Missing”, said a hastily designed poster on the window of a bar in Tribeca providing food and water to first responders. It was a plea for information about a person who had vanished in the deadliest terrorist attack in US history.

“I was like, ‘Wow, this is going to be …’” recalls Phil Buehler, an artist and photographer who had watched the twin towers collapse from his office window. “But you knew that there would be very few survivors. You knew it then.”

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