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PhotographyMay 27, 2016
The Afterlife of Polaroid
The company presents a case study in photography as a phenomenon of the instantaneous.
Frances Richard
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Language ArtsOctober 14, 2014
In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments
In the poems of Peter Gizzi, the powers of tradition meet and mingle.
Frances Richard
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PhotographyNovember 23, 2010
The Thin Artifact: On Photography and Suffering
Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Frances Richard
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PhotographyFebruary 26, 2009
Photography’s Ghosts: The Image and Its Artifice
Two new books explore the truths and artifice of photography.
Frances Richard
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisJanuary 31, 2008
New Old Things
A new collection of short pieces by the prodigious and wide-ranging critic Luc Sante doubles as a history of Modernism’s outlaws.
Frances Richard