The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 2) – Errol Morris

The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 2)

The second installment of an investigation into the matter of the famous depression-era cow-skull photo.

via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-2/

Yes. The steer skull was my point of entry. But by the time I got around to the book, I decided I wanted to get past the steer skull very quickly, because that issue had already been debated so much. And yes, Arthur Rothstein moved that skull around, and he admitted as much. And Rothstein, if anything, except for “Fleeing a dust storm,” instead of trying to create his own sense of the world, was a pretty faithful servant of the FSA