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See/Saw
Looking at Photographs
- Canongate (Faber)
- by Geoff Dyer
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Publisher | Canongate (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781838852092 |
Author(s) | Geoff Dyer |
Publication date | April 2021 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | mm |
Pages | 336 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Publisher | ISBN 9781644450444 (Pb) |
Description
See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugene Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
Following Dyer's previous books on photography, The Ongoing Moment and The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, See/Saw brilliantly combines visual scrutiny and stylistic flair. It shows us how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, and reveals a master seer at work.
In the spirit of intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world us, and within us, afresh.