Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography [B0064]

2011 HCDJ 1st Edition in excellent condition with price-clipped dust jacket. Academy Award–winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America's most provocative observers.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "You'll either love this book or be bored to tears. Some obsessive inquiries by an obsessive man into the circumstances behind, the significance of, and the meanings attached to, a few memorable photographs. Morris' rabbit holes have rabbit holes."; "If you use photography as a way to think, this book will turn your head around. read it."; "This helped me see further into photographs but it is geeky so you gotta wanna look at this."