Errol Morris: 'We've forgotten that photographs are connected to the physical world' - video

            A photograph is a true investigation into a world in which the photograph was actually taken. This man’s book starts with two photographs from a war. He has said that photographs are neither true nor false and photographs are nonsense to others. We use words as respect to the world and not photographs. You can never see the absence of something in a photograph, only everything that is visible. A photograph among other things decontextualizes everything; you only see a swatch of 2-D reality that’s been torn out of the fabric of the world. No one ever has bothered to talk to people about why they took their pictures and what the circumstances of the photograph were. Photographs become iconic because they become powerful as we see so many powerful things in photos.