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The Ongoing Moment

The Ongoing Moment

In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Canâ€™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 does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sityâ€”and trademark originalityâ€”Dyer has now come up with an idiosyncratic history of
. . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, AndrÃ© KertÃ©sz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographersâ€”many of whom never metâ€”constantly encounter one another.

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 nonfiction work of art.

Country	USA
Author	Geoff Dyer
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375422157
ISBN	0375422153
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	304
PublicationDate	2005-10-11
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2005-10-11
Studio	Pantheon

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