This event occurred on:  Tue. February 15, 7 pm – 9 pm

The Hannah Arendt Center and the Human Rights Program at Bard College invite you to a lecture by Susie Linfield:

The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence 

"Linfield’s new book—The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (University of Chicago Press)—is a beautifully considered and unabashedly impassioned plea for the continuing moral relevance of photojournalism. Writing in direct response to ever-increasing doubts about the truthfulness and ethical significance of photojournalism, Linfield offers a defense of photojournalism that honors the photographers without turning them into saints or their work into sacred icons. On the subject of photojournalism, both Galassi and Linfield might be said to be disabused optimists."

--Jed Pearl, The New Republic

Susie Linfield is Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Cultural Reporting & Criticism Program at New York University. She writes about culture and politics for a variety of publications including ArtNews, The Boston Review, Dissent, Newsday, The Nation, Truthdig.com and Salmagundi; her work has also appeared in The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She was formerly the arts editor of The Washington Post, the deputy editor of The Village Voice and the editor-in-chief of American Film.

She will be speaking about her recent book: 

The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence 

You can Read Susie Linfield's related article, Photographing Cruelty in Boston Review of Books.