Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography.

Main entry:

Morris, Errol, author.

Title & Author:

Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography.

Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Description:

xxv, 310 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Notes:
First published in 2011.
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).

Summary:

Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America's most provocative observers.

Resources:
Cover image
Table of contents

ISBN:

0143124250 (paperback)
9780143124252 (paperback)

Subject:

Documentary photography.
Photographic criticism.
Photography History.
Photographie documentaire.
Critique photographique.
Photographie Histoire.
documentary photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY Criticism.
PHOTOGRAPHY History.
Photography.
Dokumentarfotografie
Manipulation
Wahrheit
Photographie.
Ästhetik.
Dokumentarphotographie.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289972
Call No.: BIB 232698
Status: Available

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