Perhaps hard to prove. But remember that wedding dress that managed to land erect, torn, but with hardly the damage or dirt one would associate with a gown caught up in the destruction of a building?
A mannequin adorned with a wedding dress stands near the site of an Israeli air raid in Qana July 31, 2006, where more than 54 women and children were killed a day earlier. International pressure for a swift ceasefire in Lebanon mounted on Monday, France and Germany saying Israel's partial pause in airstrikes was not enough and Russia calling for an immediate suspension of hostilities. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)
If you look closely, it's really more underlayment than it is anything else. But I couldn't forget it when I came across an image from today.
Is it possible these fauxtographers have committed the gravest journalistic sin of all and revealed their source?
Just sayin ...
A Lebanese woman removes dust from a wedding dress outside her partially destroyed shop in Beirut's southern suburb. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has met with Lebanese leaders in Beirut on the first leg of a Middle East tour aimed at strengthening the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah.(AFP/Anwar Amro)
"A Lebanese woman removes dust from a wedding dress outside her partially destroyed shop... "
"Partially destroyed" sounds soooo much more dramatic than "...slightly damaged--why just look at the rent in her cheap sign! It'll take her nephew most of an hour to repair the thing! The horrors! The horrors! And look! look! She has to... DUST! Someone call some weenie commission on womens' right!"
*heh*
Posted by: David | Monday, August 28, 2006 at 09:47 PM
I am S.R. Sidarth.
Posted by: S.R. Sidarth | Monday, August 28, 2006 at 09:58 PM
The dress that is by itself is a dress and not an undergarment I think. Look at the tassels near the bottom.
What's weird about the other photo is the damage in the building above where the woman is dusting. With that much damage, I think she would take the merchandise inside - she is standing outside? That's a lot of sidewalk space. Might be more to this photo.
Just my .00002 cents.
Posted by: lurk | Monday, August 28, 2006 at 11:36 PM
I kinda like the decapitation aspect of marriage shown here. Maybe these people are more ahead of their time than we give them credit for.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, August 28, 2006 at 11:55 PM
I think you might want to fix your website because the comments on the Sidarth post don't seem to be working. Since I know you value the opinions of your readers I thought I would make a comment here.
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts to dig up dirt on this young man SR Sidarth who made the terrible mistake of working for a candidate you oppose. I think this sends an important message to young people that if they want to volunteer to work on political campaigns, they should be very careful about whom they choose to work for because people from the other side will do everything they can to ruin their lives. This will encourage young people to be a lot more careful when choosing to participate in the political process. Thank you for performing this valuable public service and keep up the good work!
Posted by: Jon Swift | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 12:03 AM
Er, so the dress was outside a shop that had been bombed by the IDF, someone takes a pic of it and, er, what exactly?
Posted by: sonic | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 12:13 AM
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts
Yer welcome!
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 01:13 AM