roger fenton

  • Many of you wondered what the point was of Error Morris's 25,000-word trilogy of blog posts about two 1855 Roger Fenton photographs. Jim Lewis at Slate wonders as well, but in the process shows his appreciation of Morris's blog opus.
    [I]t's a very charming and enjoyable journey, with all sorts of hypotheses entertained, and computer analyses, and a great deal of slightly neurotic second-guessing and self-doubt. It's a shaggy-dog story, a monumental procedural in which it's revealed, at the very end, that the butler did it after all.
    (14) #
    11/1/2007
  • Errol Morris has posted the conclusion (and solution) to a massive three-part blog essay about his pursuit to answer a seemingly simple question: which of these two photographs was taken first? What makes it interesting is that the photographs were taken in the exact same spot, are over 150 years old (taken by Roger Fenton during the Crimean War), and that at least one of them was physically staged. Here's parts one, two, and three. (23) #
    10/24/2007
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