Phtography as a weapon -Errol Morris

Photography as a weapon of mass confusion...
The most interesting part of this blog was Morris' conversation with Hany Farid. Farid brings up the idea of how people process visual information. To our eyes it makes no difference whether or not the photograph is fake, we are still processing the information it conveys. In fact, Farid suggests that when we are told something is fake it makes us remember it even more. So while we seem to be very concerned with fake photography in the media maybe we should just be concerned with which images are being presented to us and how. As we have said many times in this class, all photogrpahy is manipulation. But in the media, its context and use are ultimately what determine how we use and process these images. Morris shows this through his humorous adaptations of COlin Powell's photos.