Just came across this, a New York Times blog about photography. Well, it’s headlined as a blog but it reads as an essay, what I used to know as a think piece. What’s happened to think pieces?

This one fascinates me and the reason I want to point you at it is because of its unstated relevance to journalism and writing. It’s a photography essay but it isn’t about f-stops and lenses, it’s about truth and lies. Not a simple, overly familiar tract for or against Photoshop, it posits that truth exists only outside the picture: it’s in the context, not the image.

Blog writer Errol Morris, who’s a filmmaker by the way, says it much better than I do.

William