Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Satan in the Smoke" Emails Description An account of the resource 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. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear Mr. Phillips, Thank you for your response. I do believe that you have received lots of e-mails concerning this but I don't believe that you weren't expecting that to happen. Of course it is not possible for me to say if the image is authentic or not, but I hope that you could see where I and all the others come from. There has been so much rubbish and tabloidism in the media. Intentionally or unintentionally, your photo represents something that is very frightening and that can lead to simplyfying everything in black-and-white only. "This was a monstrous act of evil" is obviously tended to lead to an association stating that "there is a Satan and he is behind of this all.." But as I said, I can't really make any judgements on if the photo is real or not, but I just wanted to express my scepticism and by doing so to remind you of your responsibility as a ptotographer to also think what consequences the publication of your photo might have. Some people will take it very seriously and due to that perhaps consider all the Muslims as "the face of the devil". But for me, the image REALLY seems like Bill Clinton. Sincerely, Tiina Seppälä ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark D. Phillips <mphillips@stellarimages.com> To: Tiina Seppälä <tiina.seppala@urova.fi> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:00 PM Subject: Re: the photograph by Mark D. Phillips >If you read my comments on my site, I would never make something like this up. I received over 400 emails after this picture ran in newspapers worldwide and people were accusing me of making up this image. I'm sorry you feel this way. I never "came" up with this idea. >Sincerely, >Mark D. Phillips >>Dear representatives of StellarImages, >>I'm sorry but I do not believe in this kind of nonsense. If the image has to be interpreted in some way, I think it resembles more Bill Clinton than the Devil... However, I can't be 100 % sure, since I haven't met either of them, yet. But I would like to know how you came me up with an idea like this. >>Sincerely, >>Tiina Seppälä >>--- >>Tiina Seppälä >>Researcher >>International Relations >>Department of Social Studies >>University of Lapland >>FINLAND >>address: room 191 A, Faculty of Social Scinces, PL 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, FINLAND tel. +358-16-341 2681 >>mobile: +358-40-726 2687 >>e-mail: tiina.seppala@urova.fi >>--- --- Tiina Seppälä Researcher International Relations Department of Social Studies University of Lapland FINLAND address: room 191 A, Faculty of Social Scinces, PL 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, FINLAND tel. +358-16-341 2681 mobile: +358-40-726 2687 e-mail: tiina.seppala@urova.fi --- September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:47:31 +0300 September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients "Mark D. Phillips" <mphillips@stellarimages.com> September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. Tiina Seppälä <tiina.seppala@urova.fi> September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Vs: the photograph by Mark D. Phillips Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vs: the photograph by Mark D. Phillips 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-09-18