The Ongoing Moment

Name: The Ongoing Moment
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9780349120119

Geoff Dyer

12/07/2007
Abacus

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Couverture de The Ongoing Moment par Geoff Dyer

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes and objects (benches, hats, hands, roads). In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers - many of whom never met in their lives - constantly come into contact with each other. Great photographs change the way we see the world; THE ONGOING MOMENT changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art. Biographie de l'auteur Author of 3 novels, a critical study of John Berger & 3 genre-defying titles. BUT BEAUTIFUL which won the Somerset Maugham Prize), THE MISSING OF THE SOMME & OUT OF SHEER RAGE. His book of essays, ANGLO-ENGLISH ATTITUDES, was also critically acclaimed.