Gideon Jacobs contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, BOMB, and others. He is currently working on a novel about images.
Gideon Jacobs
Articles
Player One and Main Character
Gideon Jacobs considers what Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as odd couple in chief, have in common.
Trump l’Oeil
Gideon Jacobs peers into the uncanny valley of the Republican President-elect.
Photo Synthesis: Authoring Our Lives in the Age of Instagram
The psychology that pushes us to make pictures, a psychology that Susan Sontag laid bare in 1977, seems to have reached new levels of pathology in 2018.
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