Whether they use full-on storytelling or just crib a few literary devices, interviews have their own narrative arcs and angles. From political drama (think the Frost-Nixon standoff or “The Fog of War”) to Studs Terkel’s cultural layering, interviews create a kind of permanent present-tense experience for viewers.
Two recent magazine interviews underline the narrative potential of [...]
Tag Archives: Errol Morris
Interview as story: on radio, online and in print
December 16, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Errol Morris in The New York Times on still photography and context
January 4, 2010 – 3:29 pm
So much depends upon a stuffed Mickey Mouse lying in the debris of a bombed-out building. In a weekend post on The New York Times site, Opinionator Errol Morris takes on distinctions between art, journalism and propaganda in “It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 1).”
Morris looks at (and reposts) a set of images [...]
