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 [...]
Tag Archives: still photography
Errol Morris in The New York Times on still photography and context
January 4, 2010 – 3:29 pm
Visual narrative and still photography: is a picture worth a thousand words?
December 11, 2009 – 12:59 pm
This week, Michael Zhang (@PetaPixel) tweeted a link to this striking photo gallery of the Athens riots, which is composed of AP, AFP and Getty images. I was particularly intrigued by the role-reversal in this shot of a policeman as he retaliates.
I would argue that the pictures as a whole, and even some single images, explore the [...]
