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David Levi Strauss is an essayist and cultural critic based in New York. He is the author of Co-illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication (The MIT Press, 2020), Photography & Belief (David Zwirner Books, 2020), Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow (Aperture, 2014), From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual(Oxford University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture 2003, and in a new edition, 2012), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (Autonomedia 1999, and a new edition, 2010). In Case Something Different Happens in the Future: Joseph Beuys and 9/11 was published by Documenta 13, and To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution, edited by Strauss, Michael Taussig, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Dilar Dirik, was published by Autonomedia in 2016, and in an Italian edition in 2017. The Critique of the Image Is the Defense of the Imagination, edited by Strauss, Taussig, and Wilson, was published by Autonomedia in 2020. He is Chair Emeritus of the graduate program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York, which he directed from 2007-2021.

 Strauss curated an exhibition at the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea from Jan. 15 to April 11, 2026 titled The Lost Beauty of Humankind: Robert Bergman’s Portraits in the Hill Collection, accompanied by a book with the same title. And he has written an essay on Jess’s Narkissos for the catalogue of the upcoming show of Jess’s Paste-ups, Jess: A Dialogue of Presences, curated by Gary Garrels and Allegra Pesenti, from February to May 2027 at the Drawing Center in Soho.