Susie Linfield
Susie Linfield, former director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU, is author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence.
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.
Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?
For many critics, photography has become a duplicitous force to be defanged rather than an experience to embrace.
A Witness to Murder
Heinrich Jöst’s photographs of the Holocaust dwell in what Jean Améry called “the waiting room of death.”
Robert Capa’s Hope
The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.
Photographing Cruelty
In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the weapon of choice was not the gun but the spectacle of public shaming.
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.
