The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs

Author(s): Geoff Dyer

Photography

Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. 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, roads). 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. 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.


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'One of the most graceful ruminations on photography ever ... Dyer's tour de force is as inspirational as it is accessible.' Sunday Telegraph

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. He lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780857864017
  • : A&U Canongate
  • : Canongate PBS
  • : 0.272
  • : January 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 24mm
  • : January 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Geoff Dyer
  • : Geoff Dyer
  • : numerous integrated black & white illustrations and 8 page colour inset
  • : numerous integrated black & white illustrations and 8 page colour inset
  • : 770.9
  • : 770.9
  • : English
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback