See/Saw (eBook)

Looking at Photographs

GEOFF DYER (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
348 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-210-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer'A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/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.

Autor

Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books. He has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2012 he won a National Book Critics Circle Award and in 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

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Even Chekhov might have envied Geoff Dyer's talent . . . Almost perfect

Brilliant . . . Dyer's eyes miss nothing

Illuminating

Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight

A national treasure

Inspiring and informing

There's no other writer quite like Dyer

Reading Dyer is akin to the sudden elation and optimism you feel when you make a new friend, someone as silly as you but cleverer too, in whose company you know you will travel through life more vagrantly, intensely, joyfully

Praise for Geoff Dyer: Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2021
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: camera lucida • Essays • History • Imagery • John Berger • photography • photo-journalism • Photos • Roland Barthes • Susan Sontag
• ISBN-10: 1-83885-210-7 / 1838852107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83885-210-8 / 9781838852108