"Satan in the Smoke" Emails
On the morning of September 11, immediately after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. Many peple later construed the image of the smoke in his photo of the burning buildings to compose the face of Satan. These e-mails related to this picture provide a revealing portal into Americans' responses to the attacks in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
I have received that picture from friends and relatives, but we all agree that it looks like the photo was doctored. Can you Prove to us it was not? I truly would hate to think you would use such a h...
Read more...How can I obtain a copy of the image in the explosion of the World Trade Center (devil image) Maureen McC (Liffey13@home.com)\nMon, 24 Sep 2001 12:33:16 -0500\n\n"Maureen McCarthy" \n\ndevil image\...
Read more...I was watching tv this morning and saw a news clip of the 2nd tower being hit , from the southern angle and I saw the devils image in the flames. I had heard about your photo but I just woke up and w...
Read more...In the King James Version of the Bible, satan is known as the angel of light. He is also one of the most beutiful angels God created. I personally don't think the devil could look like this. By the wa...
Read more...the answer to the question is gestalt perceptual experience....we force form on that which is ambiguous....what's interesting about this phenomena is that so many people saw the same thing...........I...
Read more...This is really ironic. Before I heard about this and recieved the email on where to find a copy of the picture, I figured I knew which picture they were talking about. I saw this same face in one of...
Read more...Mark, I can't believe that you would even give satan credit! The smoke did not make this face, I believe that you somehow fixed it to look like that. If you look at the pic closer you would see, El...
Read more...mr. phillips,that's an amazing photo if ever i've seen one. what i see is two faces, one hovering just above the other. if you put your hand over this faces nose, you'll see another image, which looks...
Read more...Within minutes of the planes crashing into the WTC - in the earliest views of the tragedy, an image of the leering face of satan, as commonly depicted, was formed in the smoke that billowed from the b...
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