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errolmorris

  1. the immiseration of reading + the immiseration of writing + the immiseration of not-writing + the immiseration of being immiserated...
  2. Punctum, studium... I must be missing the point. Some things effect us personally; some things politically; some things socially? So what?
  3. When I figure out what I'm doing, I'm going to tell everyone. (OK?)
  4. My new book, "A Wilderness of Error," will be published in August...
  5. I take it back. Please read WIAN, Part Three. (And read my book.)
  6. Brevity is the soul of concision. (I wish I could say more about this.)
  7. There. Now, you don't have to bother reading WIAN, Part Three.
  8. Punctum, studium et al... You can classify your beliefs about photographs, but that in good measure misses the point.
  9. LOOK AT THE FENTON PHOTOGRAPHS. LOOK AT ANY PHOTOGRAPH... To determine what we are looking at, an investigation is needed.
  10. A kosher kitchen. Two sinks––one for reference, the other for beliefs. Most writers about photography discuss the latter, ignore the former.
  11. We can believe many things about what a photograph depicts, even though most of them may be false.
  12. A photograph has two parts: the beliefs associated with it and what it refers to.
  13. A proper name captures the human predicament — the need for significance and the need to be grounded in the world.
  14. It is not enough to be told that photographs are causally connected to what they are photos of. We need to know what we are looking at.
  15. A photograph is a kind of shadow. Shadows lack substance, but there is a causal relationship between a person and their shadow.
  16. A name under a photograph could suggest that a person looks like this—but it usually asserts: this is a photograph of that person.
  17. No one (to my knowledge) has examined the similarity between Kripke's account of proper names and photography.
  18. Ask yourself: do our beliefs about a photograph determine what a photograph is a photograph of?
  19. I HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING HOPELESSLY PEDANTIC. (Repeat phrases from "WIAN, Part Three." I have no other choice.)
  20. Don't get me wrong. Walsh's review is very, very kind and perceptive.