Errol Morris takes a look at how photographs are connected to the actual world. He describes it as an investigation into the world in which the photo was taken. He asks us as viewers to think, “What makes an honest photography?”
Describing some people’s reactions he says some people think that a photo should not be posed, it should be observed from a distance. He views that all photographs are posed. Perhaps because it excludes something, even from the frame of your camera lens you are excluding something. “Essentially there is always an elephant outside the frame,” he says in explanation. Morris goes on to explain that we should think of how we see the world through that photograph.
Another issue arises, that deepens the importance of photographs. No one ever bothered, especially back when photography was a new invention, to ask who took the photograph, or why it was taken. Pictures become iconic because we see powerful things in them. They have taken on meaning by the viewers, prompted by the photographer and his/her decision to take that picture.
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