Summary Of Errol Morris Liar, Pants On Fire

Pictures without words means nothing. Errol Morris is asking in “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” if pictures provide evidence and if so is it true or false? The writer presents a picture of a ship stripped of a caption and leaving it meaningless. Morris then adds the caption, which is the ships name, but then asks about more details embedding with the photo. Morris uses the age of the photo as a factor in identifying it and states that it needs caption to give it context to produce facts. Morris is arguing how do we know if a picture is true or false to the caption, what makes the caption true? As a reader, it made me think about every picture that I have come across and the details that make the picture what we think it is. To look more into the