David Levi Strauss and Michael Taussig | S4, E5 | DIALOGUES

Is seeing believing? In an era of surveillance and “deepfakes” and camera phones, images are more powerful-and fraught-than they’ve ever been. The poet and writer David Levi Strauss, an authority on photography and its effect in society, and the renowned anthropologist Michael Taussig investigate this timely question, spurred by Strauss’s new book, Photography and Belief.
Photography and Belief is available now through David Zwirner Books.
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This episode was originally released on December 9, 2020.
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Thank you! 👍👍👍 This was very interesting. I think it's ironic how written language evolved from images and now that those images have been lost or obscured, the words that result are used to describe new images which can't otherwise be understood. It's as if we've become dependent on words to literally spell things out for us. It requires sensitivity and contemplation to read into imagery but the images also give back a greater depth of understanding... and now that we don't read pictures and don't even trust them, we're in danger of becoming desensitized to disturbing images because we don't *really* look at them or feel them. I agree that this is a very important time to create images infused with love and also allegory in order to reintroduce the understanding that everything we look at is profound ❤