Can the Sun Lie?
- Release Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 13m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Directed By
- Susan Schuppli
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?