{"product_id":"seesaw-looking-at-photographs-9781644450444","title":"See\/Saw: Looking at Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Known as the Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day--including artists such as Eug ne Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb--the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of moving, witty, prescient, surprising, and intimate encounters with images. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDyer has been writing about photography for thirty years, and this tour de force of visual scrutiny and stylistic flair gathers his lively, engaged criticism over the course of a decade. A rich addition to Dyer's \u003ci\u003eThe Ongoing Moment\u003c\/i\u003e, and heir to Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Sontag's \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Berger's \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding a Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSee\/Saw\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, revealing a brilliant seer at work. It is a paean to art and art writing by one of the liveliest critics of our day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer \u003c\/b\u003eis the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561573355794,"sku":"9781644450444","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e884eea1-357e-496e-87dc-b6af6457ff85.jpg?v=1731848267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/seesaw-looking-at-photographs-9781644450444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}