By Parul Sehgal, Publishers Weekly Jul 08, 2011 The celebrated director of such films as The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War investigates some of photography’s most iconic, enduring, and mysterious images in Believing Is Seeing from Penguin Press. Is it true you were once a private eye? Has it influenced how you look [...]
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The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
Posted in Reviews, tagged Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey, On Photography, photography, review of The Cruel Radiance, Robert Capa, Susan Sontag, Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Susie Linfield (University of Chicago) Parul Sehgal, Bookforum, December 2010 The girl in the photograph wears her black hair tucked behind her ears. Her part is slightly crooked, and there is a small mole low on her throat, right above the top button of her blouse. She might be anywhere between five and ten years [...]
