Andrea Booher
{{Short description|American FEMA photographer}}
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| name = Andrea Booher
| honorific_suffix =
| image = EMA PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREA BOOHER AT GROUND ZERO, FALL 2001. PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG WELTY, FEMA.jpg
| caption = Booher at the site of the September 11 attacks
| occupation = Photographer
| employer = FEMA
| known_for = Photographing the site of the September 11th attack
}}
Andrea Booher is a Colorado-based photographer, filmmaker, and photojournalist best known for her photographs of the World Trade Center site.
Education
Booher has a liberal arts degree from Regis University. She studied International Relations and Spanish at the University of Colorado, and advanced Spanish at the University of Arizona's campus in Guadalajara, Mexico.
She won the Ernst Haas Photography Scholarship that she completed at the Anderson Ranch Art Center.
Career
= Photography =
Booher has undertaken photography assignments from UNESCO, UNDP and UNIFEM.
Booher is a senior photographer for Federal Emergency Management Agency and has documented more than 190 US disasters for the agency.{{Cite web |title=BIO, Andrea Booher Photography |url=https://andreabooher.com/about/bio/ |access-date=2022-02-16 |language=en-US}}
Following the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, Booher, was given 24 hour access to the site. Booher was one of only two photographers who were granted access to the site.{{Cite web |date=2011-09-07 |title=TV networks look back at 9/11 with special programming |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2011/09/07/tv-networks-look-back-at-911-with-special-programming/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}} In the ten weeks she spent there following her arrival on September 12, she produced thousands of photographs documenting the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the cleanup of ground zero.{{cite web |last1=Travers |first1=Andrew |title=Aspen Times Weekly: Bearing Witness |url=https://www.aspentimes.com/magazines/aspen-times-weekly/aspen-times-weekly-bearing-witness/ |website=www.aspentimes.com|date=19 May 2016 }}{{cite web |title=New Exhibition Features FEMA Photographs of Ground Zero {{!}} National September 11 Memorial & Museum |url=https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/new-exhibition-features-fema-photographs-ground-zero |website=www.911memorial.org}} Some of her photos were used to present the case of the dangers facing those who worked on The Pile.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2JHLmOn5wkC&dq=%2522Andrea+Booher%2522&pg=PT1 |title=A Dangerous Worksite: The World Trade Center |date=2003 |publisher=Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor |language=en}}
Booher photographed numerous disasters for FEMA in addition to the September 11 attacks, including floods in the Midwest, Hurricane Andrew, California earthquakes,{{cite web |title=Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art Receives NCAA 1999 Award of Distinction |url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa151.htm |publisher=North Dakota Museum of Art |access-date=13 March 2022}} the Cerro Grande fire in New Mexico,{{cite web |title=Resilience and Regrowth: Twenty Year after Cerro Grande |url=https://www.losalamoshistory.org/cerrogrande/crisis |website=Los Alamos History |access-date=13 March 2022}} and others.
= Exhibits and documentary =
Her work has been on display at the September 11 Museum since it opened in 2014.{{cite web |title=New Exhibition Features FEMA Photographs of Ground Zero |url=https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/new-exhibition-features-fema-photographs-ground-zero |publisher=911 Museum |access-date=12 March 2022}} In 2011, Booher's documentary Portraits from Ground Zero aired on A&E in honor of the tenth anniversary of the attacks.{{Cite news |title=Local woman's 9/11 documentary set to screen |language=en |url=https://www.aspendailynews.com/local-woman-s-9-11-documentary-set-to-screen/article_72765de0-20fe-5cd2-afbf-9b75729abc06.html |access-date=2022-02-16}}{{Cite news |last=Shattuck |first=Kathryn |date=2011-08-25 |title=9/11 in the Arts: An Anniversary Guide |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/arts/911-in-the-arts-an-anniversary-guide.html |access-date=2022-03-10 |issn=0362-4331}} Booher's work has been included in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History among other venues.{{cite web |title=Andrea Booher Exhibits |url=https://andreabooher.com/about/exhibits-collections/ |website=Andrea Booher Website - Exhibits |access-date=12 March 2022}}
=Collections=
Booher's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.{{cite web |title=Andrea Booher Untitled |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/79372/untitled?ctx=4f8d924a9c7174c904dfb2276fc22d239b09daa4&idx=6359 |website=mfah.org}} The U.S. National Archives holds over 400 of her photographs.{{cite web |title=Collection search: Andrea Booher |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&f.allAuthorityIds=10599164 |website=National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=13 March 2022}}
Gallery
File:FEMA - 10348 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 08-27-2004 in Florida.jpg|Damage to homes following Hurricane Charlie, 2004
File:FEMA - 1051 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 03-15-1998 in Georgia.jpg|Flooded homes along the Flint River in Albany, Georgia, 1998
File:(Wildfires) Rancho Bernardo, CA, October 28, 2007 -- Friends help each other search for belongings in this Rancho Bernardo home destroyed by the San Diego wildfires Andrea Booher-FE - DPLA - 5da44bba01b9ab15891267d3a765557b.jpg|Friends help each other search for belongings in this Rancho Bernardo home destroyed by the San Diego wildfires, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 2007
File:FEMA - 7493 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 06-16-2002 in Colorado.jpg|The helitack and hot shot crews continue to extinguish spot fires in the forests of No Name creek above Glenwood Springs, 2002
File:FEMA - 14508 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 09-02-2005 in Texas.jpg|Approximately 18,000 hurricane Katrina survivors are housed in the Red Cross shelter at the Astrodome and Reliant center, 2005
File:FEMA - 3600 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 07-09-1993.jpg|Midwest floods, 1993
References
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External links
- {{official site|https://andreabooher.com/}}
- [https://vimeo.com/69384383?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=3778446 Portraits from Ground Zero, Vimeo link]
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Category:American photojournalists
Category:Regis University alumni
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Category:American documentary film producers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women photojournalists