Percy V. Morris Summary

Percy V. Morris Walker Percy and Errol Morris’s perception on photography could be considered similar but yet they are very different as well. Both of these authors believe something is lost when dealing with photographs or certain scenarios in general. They both have the proof and evidence to back up their theory as well as examples to which their theory applies to. But on the other hand both of these authors do indeed have differences, they have multiple stylistic differences. Percy and Morris do ultimately have similarities on their beliefs on photographs, they both believe that photographs attract “false beliefs”. Percy’s essay gives the example of the man at the Grand Canyon and how he was depending on pictures he had already seen and the photos he had taken to determine the …show more content…
In Morris’s essays he includes two pictures of Gilligan, one taken by Sergeant Ivan Frederick and another by Sabrina Harman. In Harmans picture you can see the Sergeant in the right hand corner looking at his camera examining the picture he just took of Gilligan. Now Morris goes on to analyze this by wondering what the Sergeant is thinking and how it was impossible that he would know of the fame the would come from this picture. He goes on to talk about how he himself wonders why the Sergeants photograph became popular and talks about some qualities that might have made his photo stand out more than Harmans. This is where the difference between him and Percy start to show. In his essay Percy talks about how taking pictures takes away from what is right in your face. Percy would go on to talk about how the Sergeant is “lost”. The sergeant is ignoring the images right in front of him and focusing strictly on his camera. Percy would describe this as lost because he has lost the value of the real life and the real belief in front of him and would rely solely on the picture for his