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The Ongoing Moment
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Mar 13rd, 2007
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.26in - 0.65in - 0.63lb
- EAN: 9781400031689
- Categories: • History• Criticism
About the Author
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Geoff Dyer has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and, in 2015, the Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. The author of four novels and nine works of non-fiction, Dyer is writer in residence at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
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What people are saying
Author of four books of fiction. First memoir, IF THERE ARE ANY HEAVENS, just published by @PerseaBooks.
2018: A Year in Reading Two great discoveries: Ali Smith & Alice McDermott. I adored Geoff Dyer's "The Ongoing Moment" & couldn't put down "Home Fire" by @kamilashamsie. But book of the year, for me, was "The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott. https://t.co/gth2Uk6UHX
Former Founding Dir. OnassisLA & Dir. LIVEfromNYPL | Interviewer, Instigator, Curator of Public Curiosity | Also Quotomania & TheQuarantineTapes @dublab @lithub
“The camera is both a way of showing the human hand and of evading its uncertainties and limitations.” ~ Geoff Dyer, from “The Ongoing Moment” 📷 Ferdinando Scianna, 1984, The hand of Jorge Luis Borges [Died on this day, in 1986] thanks to @dean_frey https://t.co/hGgXZSda1R
Jonathan Gibbs is a writer, critic and lecturer.
My Geoff Dyer recommendations for those who don't know: novels The Colour of Memory and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (his best), or non-fiction But Beautiful (jazz), The Ongoing Moment (photography), Out of Sheer Rage (DH Lawrence and literature more generally), Zona (film).
Praise for this book
"Truly original. . . . A whole narrative of intensely felt and observed moments. . . . After reading it, life seems larger." --John Berger, Harper's Magazine
"An ingenious journey through the history of photography." --Art Review
"Dyer has the naturally generous impulse of a great storyteller." --The Boston Globe
"A masterful meditation. . . in which great, often melancholy themes are raised with lightness and very dry humor." --Alain de Botton, Books of the Year, The Observer (London)
"Surprising. . . . [Dyer] pulls off a string of shrewd, often original ideas about a group of artists whose work had until now seemed thoroughly digested." --The New York Times Book Review
What people are saying
Author of four books of fiction. First memoir, IF THERE ARE ANY HEAVENS, just published by @PerseaBooks.
2018: A Year in Reading Two great discoveries: Ali Smith & Alice McDermott. I adored Geoff Dyer's "The Ongoing Moment" & couldn't put down "Home Fire" by @kamilashamsie. But book of the year, for me, was "The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott. https://t.co/gth2Uk6UHX
Former Founding Dir. OnassisLA & Dir. LIVEfromNYPL | Interviewer, Instigator, Curator of Public Curiosity | Also Quotomania & TheQuarantineTapes @dublab @lithub
“The camera is both a way of showing the human hand and of evading its uncertainties and limitations.” ~ Geoff Dyer, from “The Ongoing Moment” 📷 Ferdinando Scianna, 1984, The hand of Jorge Luis Borges [Died on this day, in 1986] thanks to @dean_frey https://t.co/hGgXZSda1R