Intention of photographs

"We read correctly or incorrectly a photographer's intentions into every photograph we see. We also imagine the intentions of the people in a photograph. We see intentions everywhere. We even see them in the blind patterns of nature."
Errol Morris, "The case of the Inappropirate Alarm Clock (part 4)", The NY Times, 22 October 2009. en Jaimie Baron, The archive effect. Found footage and the audiovisual experience of history. Routledge, London and NY, 2013, p. 24