Answer TWO of the following for Chapters 2-3:
Q1: In an article in The New Yorker that first
introduced these pictures to the public, the writer, Seymour Hersch, wrote,
"The photographs tell it all" (117). According to Morris, why can a
single photograph not tell the entire story--or really, any story?
What makes it especially hard to tell this story with one photo?
Q3: Morris consults a "smile scientist" to help him decode the picture of Sabrina smiling while leaning over the dead body. How does the scientist use several pictures to prove that Sabrina isn't as guilty as everyone believes she is? What does a "Duchenne Smile" have to do with it?
Q1: How does Qaissi's story relate to Fenton's from Chapter 1? Both are accused of fabricating their accounts and offering a "fake" story to the public. Yet Fenton actually took the picture, and Qaissi only claimed to be the subject of the picture. Was he intentionally "manipulating" an image for a specific effect? Or were his claims, true or not, unable to substantially change the image?
Q4: In Chapter 1, Morris writes that there is a significant difference between "information and knowledge" (63). How does this chapter prove this point once again? Why does the information around this photograph not translate into knowledge in the article? What prevented the journalists investigating the story from becoming informed?
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