United Kingdom: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0316730254 . A Near Fine hardcover, in Near Fine dustjacket. Book has some very light bumping to spine head, else Fine. The price-intact dustjacket is very lightly bumped to spine head. A very nice copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; 9.21 X 5.91 X 1.18 inches; 304 pages .

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In his most recent 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 does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sity--and trademark originality--Dyer has now come up with an idiosyncratic history of . . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers--many of whom never met--constantly encounter one another.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 nonfiction work of art.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 57140
Title: The Ongoing Moment
Author: Dyer, Geoff
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; Third Printing
ISBN 10: 0316730254
ISBN 13: 9780316730259
Publisher: Little, Brown
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: 0316730254, Photography, Art

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