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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

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ISBN: 9781838852115
AuthorDyer, Geoff
Pub Date06/10/2022
BindingPaperback
Pages336
CountryGBR
Dewey779
Publisher: Canongate Books
Quick overview An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment
€14.61

'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.

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'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.