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The Ongoing Moment

By Geoff Dyer

By Geoff Dyer

By Geoff Dyer

By Geoff Dyer

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Mar 13, 2007 | ISBN 9781400031689

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Nov 11, 2009 | ISBN 9780307539199

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    About The Ongoing Moment

    Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.

    Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.

    About The Ongoing Moment

    Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.

    Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.

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    About Geoff Dyer

    Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award… More about Geoff Dyer

    About Geoff Dyer

    Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award… More about Geoff Dyer

    Product Details

    Category: Photography | Literary Collections

    Paperback | $21.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 13, 2007 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400031689

    Category: Photography | Literary Collections

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 11, 2009 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307539199

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    Praise

    “Truly original. . . . A whole narrative of intensely felt and observed moments. . . . After reading it, life seems larger.” —John Berger, Harper’s Magazine

    “An ingenious journey through the history of photography.” —Art Review

    “Dyer has the naturally generous impulse of a great storyteller.” —The Boston Globe

    “A masterful meditation. . . in which great, often melancholy themes are raised with lightness and very dry humor.” —Alain de Botton, Books of the Year, The Observer (London)

    “Surprising. . . . [Dyer] pulls off a string of shrewd, often original ideas about a group of artists whose work had until now seemed thoroughly digested.” —The New York Times Book Review

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