Blog Profile / Errol Morris
| URL : | http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Photography | |
| Posts on Regator: | 45 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.2 | |
| Archived Since: | March 9, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Seven Lies About Lying (Part 1)
A conversation with Ricky Jay on the nature of deception and lies, from the Bible to P. T. Barnum.
McNamara in Context
How should the secretary of defense be remembered? As a public servant, hawk, technocrat, hero or all of the above?
More Bamboozling
Responses to reader comments about the Van Meegeren art forgery series, with new information.
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 7)
What makes a work of art "great"? The final installment of a seven-part tale of the Nazi-era Vermeer forgeries of Han van Meegeren.
Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 2)
What makes a work of art "great"? The second installment of a seven-part tale of the Nazi-era Vermeer forgeries of Han van Meegeren.
Whose Father Was He? (Part Five)
This is the fifth and final installment of "Whose Father Was He?" - an investigation into a photograph of three children found on the dead body of Amos Humiston, a fallen Union soldier, at Gettysburg in 1863. Part one can be read here; part two here; part three here; and part four here. Initially, I proposed [...]
Whose Father Was He? (Part Three)
Untangling the mystery of a Civil War photograph, part three.
Whose Father Was He? (Part Two)
Untangling the mystery of a Civil War photograph, part two.
Whose Father Was He? (Part One)
Untangling the mystery of a Civil War photograph, part one.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
A last, lingering look back at George W. Bush's presidency with three people who helped create a photographic record of it -- and who here choose their favorite images.
Cartesian Blogging, Part 3
Responses to readers' comments on a photography column, with discussions ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to Wile E. Coyote.
People in the Middle
The filmmaker's informal survey of political advertising through the years, with a focus on "real-people" commercials.
Photography as a Weapon
The author examines the Iranian missile photograph widely published in July, and later found to be faked, and the many ways of deception available in the Photoshop age.
Cartesian Blogging, Part Two
The filmmaker responds to comments from readers, and sorts out The Great Whataburger/Burger King Controversy.
The Most Curious Thing
By focusing on a smile, are we ignoring a murder?
Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part Two)
A discussion of continuity in film -- "Casablanca," "That Obscure Object of Desire" -- and in life.
Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part One)
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? —W.B. Yeats, "Among School Children" “So, how is it that you managed to be on the roadway that night?” The question was posed by...
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they t...
Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up
Every human being has his own particular web of associations for identifying and interpreting reality, which, most often, instinctively and unthinkingly, he superimposes on every set of circumstances. Frequently, however, those ext...
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One)
The documentary filmmaker immerses himself in historical and visual detective work to challenge the accepted wisdom behind the origin of two famous Crimean War photographs by Roger Fenton.