errol morris

  • Many of you wondered what the point was of Error Morris's 25,000-word trilogy of blog posts about two 1855 Roger Fenton photographs. Jim Lewis at Slate wonders as well, but in the process shows his appreciation of Morris's blog opus.
    [I]t's a very charming and enjoyable journey, with all sorts of hypotheses entertained, and computer analyses, and a great deal of slightly neurotic second-guessing and self-doubt. It's a shaggy-dog story, a monumental procedural in which it's revealed, at the very end, that the butler did it after all.
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    11/1/2007
  • Errol Morris has posted the conclusion (and solution) to a massive three-part blog essay about his pursuit to answer a seemingly simple question: which of these two photographs was taken first? What makes it interesting is that the photographs were taken in the exact same spot, are over 150 years old (taken by Roger Fenton during the Crimean War), and that at least one of them was physically staged. Here's parts one, two, and three. (23) #
    10/24/2007
  • Errol Morris's second post on his NYTimes blog is about the Abu Ghraib Hooded Man, who was originally mistakenly identified by an article in the Times.
    The photograph should be a constant reminder of how we can make false inferences from pictures. And of how pictures and language can interact to produce falsehood.
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    9/12/2007
  • Errol Morris has a new blog about photography, although it could disappear behind the New York Times pay wall at any moment.
    Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but there are two words that you can never apply to them: “true” and “false.”
    His upcoming Abu Ghraib project will likely deal with the meaning of photography. (2) #
    7/25/2007
  • According to this article, Errol Morris has built a replica of parts of the Abu Ghraib prison for his documentary on the same subject. I guess we'll be getting his trademark reenactments. (FYI, the article also touches on minor plot details of The Sopranos, but there are no major spoilers.) (0) #
    5/4/2007
  • Part II of Errol Morris day. (Re-)watch this Morris short, which played during the 2002 Oscar telecast, depicting a bunch of people talking about their favorite films. The people include Shawn Fanning, Susan Sontag, Iggy Pop, Donald Trump, Tom Brady, Laura Bush, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Michael Gorbachev, Harvey Silverglate, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and a bunch of other people, famous and non-famous. (0) #
    4/27/2006
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