Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Ongoing Moment

4/5 ( ratings)

In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes and objects . In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers - many of whom never met in their lives - constantly come into contact with each other. Great photographs change the way we see the world; THE ONGOING MOMENT changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: March 13, 2007

ISBN: 1400031680

ISBN 13: 9781400031689

The Ongoing Moment

4/5 ( ratings)

In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes and objects . In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers - many of whom never met in their lives - constantly come into contact with each other. Great photographs change the way we see the world; THE ONGOING MOMENT changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: March 13, 2007

ISBN: 1400031680

ISBN 13: 9781400031689

More books from Geoff Dyer

Sons and Lovers

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Street Photographer

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

3.4/5 ( ratings)

But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Paris Trance

3.6/5 ( ratings)

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Missing of the Somme

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Suffering of Light

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Ox-Tales: Fire

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost

3.9/5 ( ratings)

All Hail the New Puritans

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Understanding a Photograph

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Andy Warhol: Dark Star

Eugene Atget: Paris 1898-1924

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?