The Cruel Radiance by Susie Linfield
Contending with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns - and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts, the author explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals.
"This is a magnificent bookSusie Linfield has a good eye for the photographs and a good head for the politics. And she has the moral strength to look at these images of mutilation, death, and destruction, explain their value, and demand that we look at them, too." - Michael Walzer"
Susie Linfield is associate professor of journalism at New York University, where she directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She has been an editor for American Film, the Village Voice, and the Washington Post and has written for a wide range of publications, including the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York Times, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, and the Nation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226482507 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226482502 |
| Title | The Cruel Radiance |
| Author | Susie Linfield |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Prizes | Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2010, Commended for PROSE (Media/Cultural Studies) 2010 |
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