David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic and Chair of the MFA program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the author of Between the Eyes- Essays on Photography and Politics, Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow- Essays on the Present and Future of Photography, and other books.
"""David Levi Strauss’s Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication asks the fundamental question about the Trump presidency: ‘How did we get here?’ An art critic and scholar of photography, Strauss grounds his observations and speculation in a deep understanding of the image, which can upend rational discourse and prevailing wisdom with astonishing speed."" – The Brooklyn Rail ""Strauss's texts are essential writing today, in a media environment run amok."" – Afterimage"