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Archival Storytelling, 2nd Edition
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Archival Storytelling, 2nd Edition

by Sheila Curran Bernard, Kenn Rabin
April 2020
Beginner
338 pages
9h 58m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 4

User Beware: Evaluating the Archival Record

The extraordinary power and appeal of the audiovisual record and works derived from it stem in part from the fact that we are seeing and hearing it for ourselves, and therefore believe it to be real. But as filmmaker and scholar Bill Nichols notes, documentary films do not reproduce reality, they represent it. In arguing about why ethical issues are central to documentary filmmaking, Nichols notes that the photographic image “is subject to qualification because:

An image cannot tell everything we want to know about what happened.

Images can be altered both during and after the fact by both conventional and digital techniques.

A verifiable, authentic image does not necessarily guarantee ...

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