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Listen to this while reading: “This Is Not A Photograph” - Mission of Burma

Here’s a must-read piece in the NY Times. It has it all: It’s a blog by Errol Morris (Documentary filmmaker responsible for The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of Time among others - IMDB link.) It touches on all the big topics: Mainstream media, Photoshop, Wittgenstein, Dada,  Godzilla, et. al. I respected and enjoyed Errol Morris  before reading this. I do so even more thoroughly now.

Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog.

It’s primarily a look at the situation surrounding the faked Iranian missile photo. But, it reaches well beyond that — as Morris is so good a doing.

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. We look at picture of Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster). It’s grainy, fuzzy. It’s hard to make anything out. You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

Now that’s a blog. It’s researched. It has interviews, It has footnotes!