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Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser is a writer based in the Netherlands. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (2009) and of Sontag: Her Life and Work (2020), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, was published in October 2023.
Benjamin Moser: The Upside-Down World
Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of biographies of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag, returns with a new book, The Upside-Down World, which tracks his decades-long engagement with the Dutch masters. Here he speaks with Josh Zajdman about the genesis of the project, the importance of judging your subjects, and the danger of art.
Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser
During the 2022 edition of Paris Photo, Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser sat down for an intimate conversation as the first event in Gagosian’s Paris Salon series, initiated by Jessie Fortune Ryan. In light of Moser’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Susan Sontag, Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019), recently translated into French, the two discussed the power and responsibility tied up in their respective practices of photography and writing.