The Ongoing Moment (Google eBook)

Geoff Dyer

Random House Digital, Inc., nov 11, 2009 - 304 páginas

Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs–award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers–many of whom never met–constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Comentarios de usuarios

Review: The Ongoing Moment

Reseña de usuario  - Artguy - Goodreads

Enjoyable book for those who know something about the history of photography (and care about it). Makes connections from one generation of photographers to another, and within generations. Some ...

Review: The Ongoing Moment

Reseña de usuario  - pinknantucket - Goodreads

As a photograph conservator I know a bit about WHAT a photograph is, a history of formats and all that, but my knowledge of the rest of it is somewhat lacking. So what better way to learn more, I ...

Índice

• Blackandwhite Photographs: 10
• 3: 69
• 20: 94
• 21: 100
• 23: 106
• 28: 112
• Untitled 1930s p: 113
• Sheriff ojMcAlester Oklahoma in From of the Jail: 121
• Iron Bed Rumpled Sheets 1981 p: 127
• Jeno in the Woods ofNepllgel Budapest 191 3 p 1: 137
• Mornlngside fork New York 1916 p: 144
• Bocskayter Budapest 1914 p: 150
• Window at the Shelton Wist 1931 p: 160
• Cafe1 near Pinole California c 1956 p: 169
• Untitled undated p: 175
• Hammock 1993 p: 196
• Savannah Negro Quarter 1955 p: 204
• The Open Door 1844 p: 214

Sobre el autor

Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, and four genre-defying books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of 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, Dyer lives in London.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Información bibliográfica

• Título: The Ongoing Moment
• Autor: Geoff Dyer
• Editor: Random House Digital, Inc., 2009
• ISBN: 0307539199, 9780307539199
• N.º de páginas: 304 páginas