{"product_id":"seesaw-geoff-dyer-9781644450444","title":"See\/Saw: Looking at Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Known as the Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day--including artists such as Eug ne Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb--the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer's \u003ci\u003eThe Ongoing Moment\u003c\/i\u003e, and heir to Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Sontag's \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Berger's \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding a Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoff Dyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644450445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Geoff Dyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052210581759,"sku":"9781644450444","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0675937b-4dab-471b-a8fa-9a13467e9499.jpg?v=1685017553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seesaw-geoff-dyer-9781644450444","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}