Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Errol Morris on Photography

"Photos are a swatch of reality, 2-dimensional, torn out of the world."
This statement made in the video was an interesting one, urging the need to do investigate to find the meaning of photographs. Another point made in the video was claiming that all photos are posed, because they either exclude something or there is something absent. 

People assign their own meaning and feelings about photographs. Similar to when reading a book. We devise our own images to put to the story, which is the opposite with photographs. When we look at a photograph, we devise a story to put with the image. 

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