{"product_id":"9781644450444","title":"See\/Saw : Looking at Photographs","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Geoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Eugène 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Geoff Dyer is an idiosyncratic master of both the image and the word.”\u003cb\u003e—Harper’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Remarkable. . . .An intellectual fun house.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(Minneapolis)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781644450444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40816843915470,"sku":"9781644450444","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c5e72abb-a650-4428-b5e4-487c2859f51c.jpg?v=1642844453","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781644450444","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}