Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Errol Morris on war photos as weapons

Filmmaker Errol Morris (his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara won an Academy Award for best documentary in 2004) keeps a blog in which he has just described how photography can be used as a weapon (NYT, August 11, 2008).

Since the Gulf War of 1991 when fireworks that were bombs were flashed on TV screens live, and the September 2001 attacks which were also filmed live, few can doubt that one of the aims of a group at war is to instill fear through photography and film.
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