The Ongoing Moment
Recommended by Rachel Cohen, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #55 in Photography
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 (benches, hats, hands,... more
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Rachel Cohen It’s a very brilliant and unusual way of entering this material. People tend to isolate photographers and write monographs about one at a time. (Source)
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