The clone war
Credit: Colorado Doug and GOPyouth, snappedshot.com.
(http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/photography-as-a-weapon/)
We are too good at believing what we see even when we are told what we are seeing is wrong. Documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris speaks to Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and an expert on digital photography about the power of photography to influence perception in an article titled, Photography as Weapon, in The New York Times. The conversation centers on the recent uncovering of altered photo reportage of Iranian missile tests. The first photo released showed four missiles taking off when in fact there were only three. The Q&A also discuss how photography and montage have been used historically to propagandize and protest.









