The Ongoing Moment
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400031680 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kindle version omits 12 color plates I give the Kindle version three stars because it does not include the 12 color plates found in the book's hardcopy. Further, hyperlinks to and from the footnotes are very difficult to use and require numerous attempts in order to function. Otherwise, the content is quirky and fa. A compelling view of the work of prominent photographers This is the view of photography from a writer not an art critic or photographer. Dyer gives his unique insight into several prominent photographers by speaking of particular photographic images that have a common thread that links them all. It is an intriguing viewpoint that is . kk said The association of one photo to another is interesting.. The association of one photo to another is interesting. The photos selected are all well discussed with true or fabricated stories behind. However, there are two inadequacies. One is the undivided trunk of text which makes reading lack of rhythm. I would rather prefer books with
All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Having already tackled jazz (But Beautiful) and D.H. Lawrence (Out of Sheer Rage), cultural critic Dyer now turns his intelligent and discriminating eye to photography. Like the great English critic John Berger (Ways of Seeing), whom Dyer wrote about in Ways of Telling, the author has a lively and dramatic sense of provocation. 8 pages color illus. (Oct. He declares, for instance, that William Eggleston's photographs look "like they were taken by a Martian
The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.. 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.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 identif