How the Truth Gets Framed for the Camera

Louis P. Masur reflects on the devi­ous lie of a snap­shot: It is not the pho­tog­ra­pher who is devi­ous, but the nature of the snap­shot itself, which iso­lates and freezes action, dis­con­nect­ing it from con­text and sequence. Pho­tographs seduce us into believ­ing that they are objec­tive records, but, in fact, all images are inter­pre­ta­tions, texts that must be read.