Louis Menand: "What are we looking at..." 

What are we looking at...
...when we look at a certain image? This photograph, by Yevgeny Khaldei, is of the most iconic images to come out of the Second World War. How was it produced and what does it signify?
(Photo: 100photos.time.com/photos/yevg...)
This lecture was held at the 2016 Holberg Symposium: "Art in Life / Life in Art" in honour of Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt.
Biography: Louis Menand is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard and a straff writer for the New Yorker. Select works: The Marketplace of Ideas (2010), American Studies(2002) and The Metaphysical Club (2001).

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