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See/saw

Hardcover • 2021 • English • 1. edition

See/saw: looking at photographs

By Geoff Dyer

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About the book

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 Eugène 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. Following Dyer's previous books on photography, The Ongoing Moment and The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, See/Saw brilliantly combines visu...Show more

History of art
Photography and photographs

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ISBN

9781838852092

Publisher

Canongate

Published year

2021

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

See/saw

Format

Hardcover

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