J. Hoberman

Author Archive

  • October 7, 2022
    Arbus, who was born in 1923 and died by her own hand in 1971, was the greatest American portrait photographer of her generation. Indeed, with the possible exception of Robert Frank,...
  • September 20, 2022
    “Godard didn’t make cinema. Godard was cinema.” So said some French dignitary (was it Macron or his tweeters?) when the news broke last Tuesday morning, September...
  • January 28, 2022
    Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.