The
terrorist attacks of 9/11 were captured in countless pictures by news
photographers, bystanders, first responders, security cameras, FBI
agents and others. Even an astronaut on the International Space Station
took some.
Twenty
years later, The Associated Press has curated 20 of its photographers’
frames from Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers used commercial planes as
missiles and crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon
and a Pennsylvania field. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and
toppled the trade center’s 110-story twin towers.
Pedestrians
in lower Manhattan watch smoke billow from New York's World Trade
Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

People
cover their faces as they escape the collapse of New York's World Trade
Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

A
person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center as
another clings to the outside, left, while smoke and fire billow from
the building, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
These
photos document the enormity, chaos and emotion of 9/11 on every scale,
from panoramic views of smoke rising over New York’s skyline to a
close-up of the anxious, smudged face of a woman hastening down a street
blanketed with ashen dust.
Street
scenes chart escalating horror as people stare and weep at the burning
skyscrapers, then run from the dust cloud billowing through lower
Manhattan after one of them crumbles. Flames shoot from the windows of
the Pentagon, a global symbol of military might that proved vulnerable
to an attack by a handful of Islamic militants. A falling human form,
almost silhouetted against one of the trade center towers, shows one of
the most agonizing horrors of all.
Flames and smoke pour from a building at the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Will Morris)

Deputy
chief of the Army Reserve, Col. Malcolm Bruce Westcott, comforts
Pentagon employee Racquel Kelley while giving her medical aid outside
the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Will
Morris)
Some
show more intimate views of pain, but also humanity — an injured
firefighter’s screaming face; a woman walking through the eerie blizzard
of trade center debris with her arm around someone else’s shoulder; the
then-deputy chief of the Army Reserve, Col. Malcolm Bruce Westcott,
holding a comforting hand to Pentagon employee Racquel Kelley’s brow
while assessing her for shock. There are images of determination,
including firefighters working amid the smoky rubble and a shopkeeper
sweeping up the dust of catastrophe.
Finally,
as night falls, people gaze across New York Harbor at the smoke, trying
to make sense of what happened in front of their eyes. As we still are
today.

Thick
smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty,
lower left, where the World Trade Center was, on Tuesday, Sept. 11,
2001. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

Fire and smoke billows from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/David Karp)

People flee the falling South Tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Smoke
billows through buildings in Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn after the
collapse of New York's World Trade Center, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP
Photo/Kathy Willens)

Pedestrians
flee the area of New York's World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Harry
Shasho sweeps up before being evacuated from his vitamin store after
the collapse of New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11,
2001. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)

Smoke
billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center as flames and
debris explode from the second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP
Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)

People
walk over New York's Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn
following the collapse of both World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11,
2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

People flee the scene near New York's World Trade Center Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

A
fireman screams in pain as he is rescued shortly after both towers of
New York's World Trade Center collapsed following a terrorist attack,
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Robert Mecea/Newsday via AP)

Firefighters
work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts, of the World
Trade Center in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark
Lennihan)

A
firefighter moves through piles of debris at the site of the World
Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Graham
Morrison)

The remains of the World Trade Center stands amid the debris in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Alexandre Fuchs)

Pedestrians
on Pierrepont Place in the Brooklyn borough of New York, watch as smoke
billows from the remains of the World Trade Center in New York, Sept.
11, 2001. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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