In this video, Errol Morris discusses how photographs are manipulated and posed, and questions what makes a true, honest photograph. Some believe that the photographer shouldn’t manipulate any aspect of the photo, but Morris thinks differently; he believes that all photographs are “posed” in a way because of the nature of framing the subject. Something will always be excluded, even it it is something that affects the situation in reality. But isolating figures within a frame gives them a whole new relationship; in a frame, they have been made significant to one another even if that’s not the case in real life. We have feelings and initial notions about photographs without knowing it, without seeing them for what they truly are, which is just a momentary snapshot of a much larger scenario that lies outside the visible frame.
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