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Susie Linfield

Susie Linfield,  director of the cultural reporting and criticism program at New York University, is author of The Cruel Radiance:  Photography and Political Violence.  

Articles

Letter from Israel: Leftists on Zionism’s Past, Present, and Future

While “left” in the West is now a virtual synonym for anti-Zionism, the same is far from true in Israel.

Susie Linfield

Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?

For many critics, photography has become a duplicitous force to be defanged rather than an experience to embrace.
Susie Linfield

A Witness to Murder

Heinrich Jöst’s photographs of the Holocaust dwell in what Jean Améry called “the waiting room of death.”
Susie Linfield

Robert Capa’s Hope

The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.
Susie Linfield

Photographing Cruelty

In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the weapon of choice was not the gun but the spectacle of public shaming.
Susie Linfield

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.
Susie Linfield

The Uses and Abuses of Photojournalism

Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?
Susie Linfield

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Susie Linfield

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