See/Saw

Geoff Dyer

From Shelf: Geoff Dyer

An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment

'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer'A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/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.