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See/Saw

Subtitle
Looking at Photographs
Author 1
Geoff Dyer
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See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day—including artists such as Eugène Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb—the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images.

Dyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and heir to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph, See/Saw shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.

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$24.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-64445-044-4
Format
Format
Paperback
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Pages
Pages
336
Trim Size
Trim Size
7 x 9.25
Keynote
A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

About the Author

Geoff  Dyer
Credit: Curt Richter

Geoff Dyer is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of Southern California.

http://geoffdyer.com/

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Praise

  • “Remarkable. . . .An intellectual fun house.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
     
  • “Enthusiastic and entertaining essays. . . . An intelligent writer with a renaissance inclusiveness of subject matter, Dyer is famed for his ability to cover a wide range of cultural topics, draw on an eclectic knowledge base, and think across genres and disciplines, all in order to decipher bold and imaginative insights.”Rain Taxi Review of Books
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