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Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography / Errol Morris

By:

Morris, Errol

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press , 2011.Description: xxv, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9781594203015

Subject(s):

Documentary photography

DDC classification:

770.9 MOR

LOC classification:

TR820.5 .M676 2011

Contents:

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).

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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