Susie Linfield
CRC, Director
Susie Linfield is the author of "The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence" (University of Chicago Press, 2010). She writes about culture and politics for a variety of publications including The Washington Post Book World, The New Republic, The Boston Review, Dissent, The Nation, Guernica, The Forward, and The New Humanist; her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Dance Ink. Linfield was formerly the arts editor of The Washington Post, the deputy editor of The Village Voice, the editor-in-chief of American Film, and a critic for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She has taught in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program since its inception in 1995.
CRC director Susie Linfield's book "The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and for the Infinity Writing Award from the International Center of Photography. The book has been widely written about and reviewed, both here and abroad; here are some of the articles, interviews, and reviews that have appeared:
The Guardian, November 16, 2010 “Photography So Good It Hurts,” by Sean O’Hagan
The New Yorker, November 29, 2010 “The Exchange: Susie Linfield on Photography and Violence,” by Ian Crouch
The New Republic.com, January 19, 2011 “Yesterday’s Heroes: Can we rescue great photojournalism?” by Jed Perl
Artforum.com, November 1, 2010 “500 Words” with Susie Linfield, by Brian Sholis
The Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2010 “Don’t Look Away,” by Evan R. Goldstein, p. B18.
Bookforum.com, December 20, 2010 Review by Parul Sehgal
Times Higher Education Supplement, December 2, 2010 “Why the Camera Never Lies Idle,” by Paul Lowe
The Nation, December 13, 2010 “The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering,” Frances Richard.
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 4, 2011 “Two Sides to Every Photo,” by Steven Kurutz
The National (Abu Dhabi), January 7, 2011 “The Atrocity Exhibition,” by Dave Stelfox
New Humanist, November/December 2010 “Don’t Look Away, Look Around,” by Max Houghton
Library Journal, Oct. 15, 2010 Review by Donna Marie Smith
Design Observer Group, November 29, 2010: “Holiday Books 2010,” by Editors
Eleftherotypia, (Athens, Greece), December 11, 2010. “Interview with Susie Linfield,” by Katerina Economakou [in Greek]
La Semana (Bogota, Columbia), November 27, 2010 “Ojos que sí ven,” (author not credited)
Inside Higher Ed, March 16, 2011: "Photography and Political Violence" by Scott McLemee
Haaretz, March 4, 2011 “The Role of Photojournalism in a Violent World,” by Alex Levac
The Brooklyn Rail, September 2011 “TDeath Agents,” John Bengan.
The Times Literary Supplement, March 11 2011, "Photographers of the Cruel" by Alex Danchev.
