Errol Morris on two Fenton photographs


	Errol Morris on two Fenton photographs

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6-29-2008 2:51 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f3100f0-08c7-4418-966c-8b784dfafb08/97579A0B-9513-4255-8D6C-218B7A0D2FED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/" style="font-size: 11px;">morris.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">(To see Part One of this article, click <A target="new" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/">here</A>. To see Part Three, click <A target="new" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/">here</A>.)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">Looking at the photographs, it <EM>looks </EM>as though we are looking back into the hills, but appearances are often deceiving and so are photographs.  Standing in the landscape, it is evident Fenton was looking north.  Or, more specifically, north-northwest.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">For me, the Crimean War is the “perfect” war.  Started for obscure reasons, hopelessly murderous, and accomplishing nothing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">he pathetic fallacy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">Gorbachev’s summer home.  It kind of looked like a metastatic International House of Pancakes.  As Olga described it, “He came to this home as premier of the Soviet Union and left as nobody.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">Not far from Gorbachev’s complex is Khrushchev’s dacha</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">I imagine a counterpart to Fenton.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/which-came-first-part-two/">There is no evidence to support this, but I imagine one of the flaming-hot cannonballs careening from wall to rocky wall in the Valley of the Shadow of Death – perhaps landing at Fenton’s feet – bearing the invisible fingerprints of Leo Tolstoy.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97579A0B-9513-4255-8D6C-218B7A0D2FED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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