Errol Morris
Documentary filmmaker and writer; director of The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War, and author of Believing is Seeing.
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The Auschwitz Album Recommends
I feel the pull of The Auschwitz Album very powerfully. We're looking at something that is indecent, it's cruel beyond imagination and yet it's real. It concerns real people and real historical events.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30
Lee Miller's War Recommends
There's this wonderful photograph of Lee Miller in Hitler's bathtub, taken by her boyfriend at the time – a Life photographer she had teamed up with, David Scherman.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30
A Day with Picasso Loved
It's an obvious precursor to what I've been trying to do. It's also a great book in its own right. Unfortunately, Klüver died just a couple of years before I started working on my own book. I would have loved to talk to him.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30
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The Perfect Medium Recommends
These images answer certain people's hopes and dreams – that they can reconnect with those that are lost, that the deceased are always with us. One example is William H Mumler, the famous spirit photographer who created a picture of Mary Lincoln with the ghost of her deceased husband hovering in the background.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30
Six Seconds in Dallas Recommends
Another book I would like to mention is Josiah Thompson's Six Seconds in Dallas [about the Kennedy footage]. It's an early example of an attempt to do just what we're talking about – piecing together reality through photography, or in this case film.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30
Gettysburg Loved
Frassanito was obsessed with Gettysburg and with reconnecting photographs of the Civil War to the circumstances under which they were taken. Through this obsessive quest, he reconnects the photographs to actual geographic places and reorders them to reflect the real sequence of events. It's a deeply fascinating enterprise and I was inspired by his work.
fivebooks.com 2011-09-30