See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

Description

”Wide-ranging and eclectic” TLS
”Seductively curious” Observer
”A visual and intellectual journey” Herald

See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world”s most important photographers – from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb – Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.