Title: The Ongoing Moment
First published: October 11, 2005
Description: 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.
Subjects: Photography, Popular works, History, Nonfiction, Geschichte, Photographie, Fotografie, Photography, history, Art, themes, motives, etc., Themes, motives, Histoire, Thèmes, motifs, Fotografi, Historia, Essäer, Fotokonst, Teori, filosofi, Acervo, Fotografia, História
Places: United States, Estados Unidos
People: Paul Strand (1890-1976), Ed Clark (1926-), Edwin Rosskam, William Henry Fox Talbot, Walker Evans (1903-1975), Ben Shahn (1898-), Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Bruce Davidson (1933-), Joel Meyerowitz (1938-), William Eggleston (1939-), Hiroshi Sugimoto, Eugène Atget (1857-1927), Edward Steichen, Lewis Hine, Garry Winogrand, André Kertész, William Gedney, W. Eugene Smith, Imogen Cunningham, Weegee, Edward Weston, John Vachon, Jack Leigh, Brassaï (1899-1984), Michael Ormerod, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Peter Brown, Stephen Shore, Steve Schapiro, Merry Alpern, Robert Frank, James Nachtwey, Laura Mozes, Regina Fleming