Sunday, February 15th 2009
At most Indian weddings, the bride is carried into the ceremony in a carriage. There are hanging beeds on either side of the carriage to partially hide the bride. Just before she is carried down the isle, everyone puls the beads away so they can get an unobstructed view of the bride, so it’s a bit of a struggle to get this particular shot.
“I think the idealization of women is indigenous to men. There are various ways of idealizing women, especially sexually, based in almost every case on their inaccessibilty. When a woman functions as an unobtainable love object, then she takes on a mythical quality.”
Poet Laureate James Dickey, Self Interviews. P.153
