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OverviewGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. 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. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geoff DyerPublisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.289kg ISBN: 9780857864017ISBN 10: 0857864017 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsDyer is a master of the close-up, a hawk-eyed spotter of small coincidences * Independent on Sunday * Dyer's subtle, understated, unforgettable masterpiece deserves to join Susan Sontag's On Photography on our bookshelves * Scotland on Sunday * Enjoy a witty, incisive lesson in how to rescue cultural criticism from shuttered academia * Independent * Dyer is a master of the close-up, a hawk-eyed spotter of small coincidences - Independent on Sunday * Dyer is a master of the close-up, a hawk-eyed spotter of small coincidences Independent on Sunday * Dyer's subtle, understated, unforgettable masterpiece deserves to join Susan Sontag's On Photography on our bookshelves Scotland on Sunday * Enjoy a witty, incisive lesson in how to rescue cultural criticism from shuttered academia Independent Author InformationGeoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer 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 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. He lives in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |