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See/saw : looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020 / Geoff Dyer.

Title
See/saw : looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020 / Geoff Dyer.
Author
Dyer, Geoff,
Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2021.

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330 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
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.
Subject
  • Photography > History
  • Photography, Artistic > History and criticism
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Photography
  • Visual literacy
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Essays.
  • History.
  • Illustrated works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Encounters -- Exposures -- Writers.
Call Number
TR642
ISBN
  • 1644450445
  • 9781644450444
LCCN
40030577107
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries