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

"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. 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 beh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morris, Errol
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Documentary photography. Photographic criticism. Photography > History. PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism. PHOTOGRAPHY > History. Photography. Dokumentarfotografie. Manipulation. Wahrheit. Photographie. Ästhetik. Dokumentarphotographie. Dokumentärfotografi > teori, filosofi. History.
Genre:	History. Documentary photography.
Physical Description:	xxv, 310 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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).