A very interesting essay by Errol Morris about the truth/false-hood of a photography. Very eloquently summarized by him…
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The idea that photographs hand us an objective piece of reality, that they by themselves provide us with the truth, is an idea that has been with us since the beginnings of photography. But photographs are neither true nor false in and of themselves. They are only true or false with respect to statements that we make about them or the questions that we might ask of them.
The photograph doesn’t give me answers. A lot of additional investigation could provide those answers, but who has time for that?
Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but there are two words that you can never apply to them: “true” and “false.”
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What is the above photograph? To find out hit the source link below.
More of this essay from here: [The Link]
Also, interesting is his upcoming book: [Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography]