Errol Morris
Documentary filmmaker (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) and author of Believing is Seeing.
A Day with Picasso by Billy Kluver
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
Gettysburg by William Frassanito
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
Lee Miller's War by Antony Penrose and David E Scherman
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
Six Seconds in Dallas by Josiah Thompson
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
The Auschwitz Album by Peter Hellman
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
The Perfect Medium by Clement Cheroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem and Sophie Schmit
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.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Sep 2011
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