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Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography

  • May 19, 2022
  • Errol Morris
  • 388 responses.

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  • Title: Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
  • Author: Errol Morris
  • ISBN: 9781594203015
  • Page: 303
  • Format: Hardcover

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  1. Errol Morris shows how the meaning of photographs shifts when the context in which they re viewed shifts As a contextualist, I found this an exciting if not surprising demonstration Each essay is an exercise in changing the context of famous photographs Fenton s In the Valley of the Shadow of Death changes from a document of the horrors of war into a way of exposing interpretive hubris and the limits of knowledge The snapshots of torture taken by MPs in Abu Ghraib become forensic data in the rec [...]

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  2. I, too, look at the two Fenton photographs and try to imagine what Fenton s intentions might have been It s unavoidable People have been programmed to do so by natural selection to project ourselves into the world and to imagine Fenton s world as we imagine ours We want to know where we end and the world begins We want to know where that line is It s the deepest problem of epistemology All of the central issues of photography that I address in this book of essays questions of posing, photo faker [...]

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  3. The essays, while very readable, address photos and how they are perceived than it addressed photography Morris provides a broad range of analyses of various historical photos, places them in context with the social psychological issues they address and covers a huge amount of time and technique My review is necessarily superficial, as I did not find this collection of essays particularly compelling.

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  4. i really loved this book it engaged me, it made me think and most of all, it made me long for someone to discuss it with it made me want a photography book club in my life because it warrants discussion and debate it made me so much aware of the emotions and intentions that we bring to any photograph how much of the story of a photograph happens inside of our own heads the highlights, for me, were definitely chapter 1 on two photos of a crimean war battlefield taken by photographer roger fenton [...]

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  5. A close but informal look at photography, journalism, history, propaganda, and truth using a half dozen or so examples Very educational and thought provoking As the jacket copy says part detective story, part philosophical meditation.

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  6. It s rare that I can read a book of essays and not find one of them boring In an ordinary collection, at least one will be about something Ihave absolutely dull and am forced to either finish reading it, or miss out on something I could learn from Thankfully with Believing Is Seeing, documentary film maker, Errol Morris, has managed to write 4 lively and interesting essays into an aspect of photography I ve never really thought about before.In these essays he examines the nature and history of d [...]

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  7. I have to admit I was not keen to read this book because I found Morris blog posts on the NYTimes site kind of tiring to read through But those same essays, in book form, are much engaging and enjoyable Part of the reason is the design of the book, with illustrations as well placed as an Edward Tufte volume The readability comes also from the fact that some of the writing is in the form of dialogue transcripts edited, presumably of conversations Morris had with others.The book is an exploration [...]

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  8. Amazing analysis of photography, history, and human psychology Errol Morris s conversational style and investigative approach takes you through five different photographs and the questions we should ask about them The torture at Abu Grahib occurred while I was still quite young, and my re education on this event was aided through Morris s simultaneous education and questioning about the way we learn and remember about world events An awesome book to fulfill my thirst for media analysis and quest [...]

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  9. Very well written and interesting exploration of issues related to photography and certain photographs If I were into photography or fact checking, I probably would have really liked it.

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  10. This is a conversational, obsessive rumination about aspects of photography Filmmaker Errol Morris asks What can we really know from a photograph How do we interpret and misinterpret photos How has photography impacted our sense of reality, history, and evidence The book is primarily built around a handful of photographs or related series of photographs from the Crimean War, Abu Ghraib the subject of Morris s film, Stand Operating Procedure , the Civil War, and a few others.The book is almost al [...]

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  11. This book is great, and I have a hard time rating it While on the one hand it makes you think about these profound questions about photography, I also feel like it leaves much to be desired There is just so much to think about that he introduces I wish he had attempted to give a cohesive idea or thought to it all In the end is just feels like isn t that a neat idea And my response is YES Now tell me Let s keep going

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  12. A curious documentary book, a connected series of essays on contextualizing and investigating photographic records beyond our initial visual assumptions Written by a documentary filmmaker, nearly a script, the style is visual and heavily laced with interview transcripts of his explorations Evidence of war Crimean, Abu Ghraib, Israel Lebanon, and US Civil War is the theme throughout Kinda good, kinda nerdy, thought provoking.

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  14. Excerpts from book main takeaways for me Believing Is Seeing is about the limitations of vision, and aboutthe inevitable idiosyncrasies and distortions involved in the act oflooking in particular, looking at photographs Believing Is Seeing, though perceptive about photography, isfundamentally concerned with something very different epistemology.Morris is chiefly interested in the nature of knowledge, in figuringout where the truth in both senses lies.We first encounter this approach during Morri [...]

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  15. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to the indelible portraits of the WPA photography project Each essay in the book presents the reader with a conundrum and investigates the relationship between photographs [...]

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  16. This book presents a cool idea executed by someone I believe is one of America s coolest figures, the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris He has the mind of a private investigator and the heart of an artist, which has resulted in some of the most probing yet beautiful films ever made, including The Fog of War and Gates of Heaven.Whether interviewing Robert McNamara and trying to understand what motivated one of the key players in the Vietnam War Fog or literally playing detective in the case of a [...]

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  17. If I looked at the world through Errol Morris eyes, there might be a caution across the bottom OBJECTS MAY NOT BE AS THEY APPEAR The man questions everything the generally accepted an idea, the harder he digs It s one reason he makes great film documentaries.In this book, he examines the objective truth of some photographs There is always a subjective element in what the photographer chooses to photograph and what is included in the frame another choice is made when an editor decides to include [...]

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  18. Cameras don t lie, they say but photographers can, and do And for photo journalists, that doesn t necessarily imply anything as obviously wrong as retouching a print in the darkroom, or manipulating it with the magic of software although those happen too Merely moving an object within the camera s field of vision could constitute manipulation And sometimes the image itself is unchanged, and it s the context presented with the image that makes it utterly misleading.For the essays in Believing is [...]

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  19. Crimean war photography the Abu Ghraib photos of the Hooded Man and Sabrina Harman s smile FSA photography and the work of Edward Rothstein Walker Evans war photojournalism and the political messages behind the posing of toys civil war photography and search for meaning in the past What is a realistic , unaltered, documentary photograph and what does it mean to pose alter a photograph is choosing what to frame not itself a selection of reality Couldn t you argue that every photograph is posed be [...]

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  20. The essays in this book use a variety of subjects from famous photos of the Farm Security Administration to the Abu Ghraib portfolio to investigate epistemological questions about the nature of truth in photographs And lest that turn you off, the good news is Errol Morris does a fantastic job of keeping the material accessible by relying on conversational interview transcripts much than academic papers or other such esoteric resources What does it mean to pose a photograph How does that affect [...]

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  21. An extraordinary book that everyone interested in photography first and perception above all should read What Morris does is tease apart, with enormous patience and insight, the stories behind some historically controversial photographs We go through the famous Fenton photographs of the cannonballs on the road during the Crimean War We study the horrific Abu Ghraib photographs We ponder some iconic photographs from the Dust Bowl era in the United States We admire a touching photograph from the A [...]

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  22. That photography both reveals and conceals is not a new idea Or that, as Morris comments, concepts of naturalness, authenticity, and posing are all slippery slopes that when carefully examined become hopelessly vague Or that, throughout the history of photography, photographers and others have grappled with the relationship of the photograph to reality So, I experienced no Aha moments while reading Believing is Seeing Rather, of most interest to me were the details about the photographed histori [...]

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  23. I think Errol Morris is a brilliant documentary film maker So when I saw this book I had to read it It is an analytical look at a handful of amazing photographs His expertise is going behind the photo to reveal it s meaning Captions sit uncomfortably with him and he pursues the very thoughts of each photographer as they made the image, although that s not always possible The key photos are Fenton s Valley of Death photo from the Crimean War, Abu Ghraib photos, photos from Lebanon during the Isra [...]

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  24. I saw my first Errol Morris film in the early 80s in film class, The Thin Blue Line It would be the ground breaking film into exonerating the falsely accused Great film.Now, Morris has tried to take a documentary film maker s approach to several landmark photographs and open up their history and story as well as openly discuss the value or valuelessness of photography He explores the mystery of a posed clock on a share cropper s mantle This was from an accusation that Walker Evans staged this ph [...]

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  25. Errol Morris is a documentary filmmaker and photographer This book is a collection of his columns in the New York Times, where he wrote about the assumptions people make as they look at photographs Morris often chose important historic photographs such as Roger Fenton s 1855 image The Valley of the Shadow of Death , taken during the Crimeran War which have been dogged by controversy Morris newspaper column, which only appeared online, drew thousands of comments from the average reader, many of w [...]

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  26. What a fascinating book It challenges the assumption that the camera doesn t lie Errol Morris shows us how the stories presented by a superficial look at documentary photographs are not always what they seem Morris goes to extreme lengths to get to the bottom of the circumstances surrounding several controversial photos He reminds us that too often we look at things superficially, and that unless we are willing to take the time and mental effort to go deep, we accept a vision of reality that may [...]

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  27. Help I hate to say it, but I m bored by this I m not really sure what page I m on but I read the first chapter and part of the second and then skipped around a bit I want to like this so much the points he is making about questioning what we know about a photograph and the meaning we bring to analysis are very important Morris is a great critical thinker and detective But so far the book is kind of dry and pedantic for the amount of broader insightfulness it offers Since these aren t really new [...]

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  28. War is such a peculiar thing inaugurated by the whims of a few, affecting the fate of many It is a difficult, if not impossible thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning even virtue It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops In the pre photographic era, images came directly from our eyes to our brains and were part of our experience of reality With the advent of photography, images were torn free from the world, snatched from [...]

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  29. Believing Is Seeing Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Errol Morris, a filmmaker, unravels the mysteries of documentary photography Why is Morris so skeptical about documentary photographs Does it relate to his deceased father and the secrecy around his role in the family or to his eye surgery as a child Beyond that, Morris seeks out factual evidence through testimony, history, and careful examination of light and contrast to determine the authenticity of photos and the stories behi [...]

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  30. Silly rabbit, photographs are tricks Believing Is Seeing is a forensic inquiry into the legitimacy of a few famous photographs Valley Of The Shadows Of Death, the Abu Ghraib Hooded man photo, the Sabrina Harman Thumbs Up photo over mutilated body at same location, Dust Bowl and other propaganda photos, etc Photography does not, has never, will never express objective truth All photography is manipulated by the photographers frame perspective, by lens length, length of exposure, darkroom techniqu [...]

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