Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography
Morris, Errol
Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography / Errol Morris - New York : Penguin Press , 2011. - xxv, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crimean war essay (intentions of the photographer) -- Abu Ghraib essays (photographs reveal and conceal -- Photography and reality (captioning, propaganda, and fraud) -- Civil War (photography and memory).
Morris investigates well-known images to examine the nature of truth in photography. He chooses images from four different wars (the Crimean War, the Civil War, the Iraq War, and the Israeli-Lebanese war) as well as photographs from the Farm Service Administration and the Works Progress Administration taken during and after the Great Depression. He approaches each photographic mystery as a forensic scientist would, performing exhaustive research, consulting historical and scientific experts, traveling to the sites where the photographs were made, and conducting experiments with exposure and lighting. What Morris reveals is that regardless of an image's historical data or metadata, inherently complex theoretical issues of intention, concealment, and revelation will always exist.
9781594203015
2011013101
Documentary photography
TR820.5 / .M676 2011
770.9 MOR
Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography / Errol Morris - New York : Penguin Press , 2011. - xxv, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crimean war essay (intentions of the photographer) -- Abu Ghraib essays (photographs reveal and conceal -- Photography and reality (captioning, propaganda, and fraud) -- Civil War (photography and memory).
Morris investigates well-known images to examine the nature of truth in photography. He chooses images from four different wars (the Crimean War, the Civil War, the Iraq War, and the Israeli-Lebanese war) as well as photographs from the Farm Service Administration and the Works Progress Administration taken during and after the Great Depression. He approaches each photographic mystery as a forensic scientist would, performing exhaustive research, consulting historical and scientific experts, traveling to the sites where the photographs were made, and conducting experiments with exposure and lighting. What Morris reveals is that regardless of an image's historical data or metadata, inherently complex theoretical issues of intention, concealment, and revelation will always exist.
9781594203015
2011013101
Documentary photography
TR820.5 / .M676 2011
770.9 MOR
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