See/Saw - Looking at Photographs

''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 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geoff Dyer, Dyer Geoff
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781838852115
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-211-5
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, Individual photographers, Photography and photographs