Can the Sun Lie?
- Media type
- Film
Can the Sun Lie? · Can the Sun Lie? · MOVIE
Documentary 2014
About this title
Can the sun lie? asked a US court in 1886. This legal question arose when photographs or sun pictures as they were also called at the time first entered into juridical proceedings as a new form of evidence. Could chemistry and light manipulate the natural order of the things worried the court or were the realities depicted by photographs incontrovertible?