See/Saw
Looking at Photographs
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2022
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Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-211-5 (ISBN)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-211-5 (ISBN)
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment
'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS
'Seductively curious' Observer
'A visual and intellectual journey' Herald
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 Eugène 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.
'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS
'Seductively curious' Observer
'A visual and intellectual journey' Herald
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 Eugène 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.
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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | black-and-white integrated images |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 290 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
ISBN-10 | 1-83885-211-5 / 1838852115 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83885-211-5 / 9781838852115 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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