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See/saw : looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020 / Geoff Dyer.
LIBRA TR642 .D84 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyer, Geoff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photography, Artistic--History and criticism.
- Photography--History.
- Photography.
- History.
- Visual literacy.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- '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 the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh.
- Contents:
- Encounters
- Exposures
- Writers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1644450445
- 9781644450444
- OCLC:
- 1182599403
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