The Lebanese’s overall obliviousness and indifference to documenting the carnage through photographs, films, and videos cannot be fully explained by the circumstance that toward the end of the civil war they must have grown habituated to the destruction around them, as well as by the fact that many of these ruined areas were declared military zones, offlimits to cameras. Can photographs of these withdrawn buildings become available without resurrecting their withdrawn referents? — Jalal Toufic, The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster.