Change the yellow labels, change the caption and you change the meaning of the photographs. You don’t need Photoshop. That’s the disturbing part. Captions do the heavy lifting as far as deception is concerned. The pictures merely provide the window-dressing. The unending series of errors engendered by falsely captioned photographs are rarely remarked on.

Errol Morris, filmmaker and writer for the New York Times, on the amazing suggestive power of words + photographs. (Via Boing Boing.) (#)